Bücher von Olivia Laing

The Lonely City is a captivating book by Olivia Laing, published in 2017 by Canongate Books. This book explores the subject of loneliness in a unique and profound way, taking the reader on a journey through the busy streets and crowded apartments of the city. The author uses her personal experiences and observations to illuminate the complexities of isolation and solitude in the urban environment. The Lonely City is a thought-provoking read that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt alone in a crowd. Despite being set in the hustle and bustle of the city, it is a book that speaks to the universal human experience of loneliness. Published by Canongate Books, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary literature.

Olivia Laing, prize-winning, bestselling author of The Lonely City and Crudo, returns with a career-spanning collection of essays on the power of art in times of crisis.

A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.

The author of The Lonely City takes readers on an ambitious investigation into the body in the twentieth century, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart an electrifying course through the great freedom movements of the era, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil-rights movement.

»Laing hat einen Klassiker geschrieben. Eine atemberaubende Hommage an die Kunst und daran, wie Einsamkeit uns empfänglicher macht für die Fremdartigkeit anderer.« Deborah Levy Mit Mitte dreißig zieht Olivia Laing nach New York City, weil dort der Mann lebt, den sie liebt. Kaum ist sie angekommen, geht die Beziehung in die Brüche, und sie sitzt allein in ihrem kleinen Apartment - so einsam wie noch nie in ihrem Leben. Um sie herum feiern die Leute ausgelassen, hören Jazz und amüsieren sich. Doch bald entdeckt sie, dass sie mit ihrer Einsamkeit nicht allein ist. Vielen Kunstschaffenden vor ihr ist es in New York genauso ergangen. Hätte Edward Hopper sonst sein bekanntestes Bild malen können, die »Nachtschwärmer«? Jene drei Menschen, die allein am Tresen einer Bar hocken? Mitreißend erzählt Olivia Laing die Lebensgeschichten großer Künstler*innen in New York und zugleich von sich und einem Gefühl, das wir alle kennen.

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of Clear Water, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology Ask Dr. Mueller, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times. Thanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia and Chloé Griffin's oral biography Edgewise, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, Collected Stories amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."