Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done
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The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Many people find themselves in relationships that make them unhappy but are unable to end them because they’re afraid of being and staying alone.
And her shedding light on the art and lives of queer artists such as Klaus Nomi, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, who at some point were almost forgotten, is a joy.
Brookner trains unflinching attention on the emotional vicissitudes of life in a society that gives single people the feeling they really are terrible failures.
It’s a difficult book at times because Wolf is grappling with something that our psyches usually don’t allow us to see: how helpless we are in the face of fateful events beyond our control, and how catastrophically we are thrown into history.
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Due out next month, this novel follows an unnamed girl who flees from a colonial settlement in 1600s Virginia to make her way through the forests and rivers of North America.
During her fight for survival the girl comes to an understanding of the natural world and her life within it which is a rare testament to the spiritual upsides of loneliness that we can only experience when we are alone.
Terrible summary, bot. This is a pretty interesting list though, and though the title doesn’t mention it, all authors are women. I’ve added a few to my reading list. The list:
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The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Many people find themselves in relationships that make them unhappy but are unable to end them because they’re afraid of being and staying alone.
And her shedding light on the art and lives of queer artists such as Klaus Nomi, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, who at some point were almost forgotten, is a joy.
Brookner trains unflinching attention on the emotional vicissitudes of life in a society that gives single people the feeling they really are terrible failures.
It’s a difficult book at times because Wolf is grappling with something that our psyches usually don’t allow us to see: how helpless we are in the face of fateful events beyond our control, and how catastrophically we are thrown into history.
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Due out next month, this novel follows an unnamed girl who flees from a colonial settlement in 1600s Virginia to make her way through the forests and rivers of North America.
During her fight for survival the girl comes to an understanding of the natural world and her life within it which is a rare testament to the spiritual upsides of loneliness that we can only experience when we are alone.
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Terrible summary, bot. This is a pretty interesting list though, and though the title doesn’t mention it, all authors are women. I’ve added a few to my reading list. The list:
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Ti Amo by Hanne Ørstavik
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
Accident: A Day’s News by Christa Wolf
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Years by Annie Ernaux
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff