American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. Author of Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany and Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Adverti...
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Dwight Garner @DwightGarner
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Mar 1, 2016
Olivia Laing, in her new book, The Lonely City, picks up the topic of painful urban isolation and sets it down in many smart and oddly consoling places. She makes the topic her own . . . Perhaps the best praise I can give this book is to concur with Ms. Laing’s dedication: 'If you’re lonely, this one’s for you.'
