Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city.

This is an interesting mix of biography and memoir, though it felt unbalanced to me (too much of the former, not enough of the latter), and I enjoyed her analyses of each artist’s work and life, as well as any parallels to her own journey. It made for a thoughtful commentary on the times and the nature of human existence, but sometimes the prose was stretched a bit thin.