If you've read more than Anne of Green Gables, you know that she often
wrote about loneliness, about family.
Fabienne Harford
writes about the loneliness that accompanies being single, and how it does not equate rejection.
In an article published last year in Next Wave, «Anne Tyler» (not her real name)
wrote about the loneliness and undue burden of being the only black student in her graduate department.
Also, much has been
written about the loneliness of the principalship.
In a FAQ on her site, White answers the question, «Did it make you feel lonelier,
writing about loneliness every day?»
Not exact matches
The problem is that we don't often actually see those friends face to face, as the Boston Globe's Billy Baker discovered when his editor asked him to
write about the health effects of
loneliness recently.
That was how James Hong (angel investor, badass, founder of HotOrNot) responded to an article I had
written two years ago
about the
loneliness of being a founder.
The
writing of this post began with sadness and
loneliness pouring forth from a disquieted mind, with introspection and frustration and words that were important — questions
about growing older that, inevitably, must be asked — but it fizzled, never reaching a boil but a rather disappointing simmer that belied the troubles beneath.
In every issue, students
write about matters closest to their hearts: love, secrets, dances, body image, sexual identity, relationships with parents, and also intense academic pressures, competition,
loneliness, depression and fears for the future.
We tend to compare ourselves to others when we see these photos — often carefully curated photos — the authors
wrote about their findings, which can lead to feelings of
loneliness, exclusion, or disappointment with our own lives.
Reviewing the film for The Times, Justin Chang
wrote: «One of the best things
about «Stronger,» which Green directed from a script by John Pollono, is that it doesn't shy away from, much less attempt to stifle, the anger, despair and terrible
loneliness that Bauman experienced during his long, painful rehabilitation.
Other selections include «Wanda» (1971), a character study
about loneliness and personal isolation
written and directed by actress Barbara Loden, and a collection of home movies of the Fuentes family in the 1920s and 1930s in Corpus Christi.
He
wrote some of his lines, like: «Tell me
about the
loneliness of good, He - Man.
There are so seldom stories
written about true love striking «senior citizens», or in this case, two mature widowed individuals that are clearly battling both their own personal grief over their lost spouses as well as their own
loneliness.
I thought early on that I was
writing about a sexy young animal rights activist; I found out later I was really
writing about mothers and
loneliness and the saving power of nature.
Along with Cath's story
about loneliness, creativity, possible romance, and new adulthood are various chapters from the Simon Snow canon — mostly from «Carry On,» but also some of Cath's older stories, as well as her source material — and eventually, a piece of Cath's original
writing.
In her best - selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore
wrote about the disconnect between men and women,
about the precariousness of women on the edge, and
about loneliness and loss.
I've
written a lot
about the
loneliness side of freelancing, and I think that will always be one of the most challenging aspects of the job.
«When I first saw her work — this might have been in the late 1970s, when I was not yet twenty — I was immediately consumed by the stories she worked so hard to tell:
about loneliness, togetherness, and the drama of self - presentation, spurred by the drama of being,» Als
writes in Alice Neel, Uptown.
From
loneliness to collaboration, I ended up re-reading Cassavetes on Cassavetes (2001), a printed essay that was brought to my attention while curating a group exhibition, which, at its core, prompted the artists to question or evaluate their collaborative impulses.8 In the text, the director John Cassavetes
writes plainly
about how he works with actors: «I just think that you give somebody something they can do, and allow them to be a person.»
Emily White is a lawyer who was so overcome by
loneliness that she quit her job, moved to a remote home in Newfoundland, and
wrote a book
about how lonely she was.
I
wrote about the opportunity in my 2016 article «The quest to cure
loneliness, «and I even helped build a failed app called Signal with the same purpose.