The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

This was not what I expected. Instead of a personal memoir interspersed with stats and psychological findings on loneliness in cities, the author focuses on reducing artists' lives and careers down to the fact that they were lonely in nature. It is well written, but there is something about the language of art interpretation that makes me scream “show me the facts”. I made it a third in, but I'll stop now and shelve this as DNF.