The Lonely City

Jambands: Bill Callahan Shares “Lonely City,” Second Single from ‘My Days of 58’

Bill Callahan has shared “Lonely City,” the second preview single from My Days of 58. Set to arrive on Feb. 27 via Drag City, the venerable singer-songwriter’s ninth solo studio album under his own ...

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Bill Callahan Shares “Lonely City,” Second Single from ‘My Days of 58’

Bill Callahan has shared “Lonely City,” the second single from his February-bound album My Days of 58. The music video comprises a photo montage compiled by the street photographer Daniel Arnold, who ...

Publishers Weekly: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

The lonely city of the title is teeming with painters, filmmakers, writers, and thinkers. In her new book, Laing (The Trip to Echo Spring) creates a “map of loneliness,” tracking its often-paradoxical ...

heraldscotland: The great alone: review of The Lonely City, by Olivia Laing

A few years ago, Olivia Laing found herself an expatriate Brit living in New York City. No stranger to urban life, she nonetheless grew overwhelmed — by the quirks of each new sublet, by the slight ...

MSN: Bill Callahan’s new video is a charming homage to New York City

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Bill Callahan’s new video is a charming homage to New York City

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MSN: When you’re lonely in a crowded world, let Olivia Laing make sense of it

When you’re lonely in a crowded world, let Olivia Laing make sense of it

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“WHAT does it feel like to be lonely?” Olivia Laing asks near the beginning of this affecting, compelling, deeply humane book. “It feels like being hungry,” she continues, “like being hungry when ...

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