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Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum.In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone."
How to Be Alone, a 2014 book by Sara Maitland; How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't, a 2018 book by Lane Moore "How to be alone", a 2016 poem by Donika Kelly; in other media: How to Be Alone, a 2016 short film; How to Be Alone, a 2009 short film by Andrea Dorfman "How to Be Alone", a song by Eulogies from Here Anonymous
The film closes with Alice reflecting on her time living alone and being single. Meg and Ken are together, while Robin continues her old habits. Tom opens up to the possibilities of non-casual relationships. Lucy marries George, and David talks to his daughter about her mom.
This idea to unpack being alone versus loneliness began percolating for you years ago, at a different stage in your life. How has the time since shaped your perspective?
Being alone is not something the human body or mind is built to do, says Kory Floyd, Ph.D., a professor of communication at the University of Arizona and the author of The Loneliness Cure. You ...
Embracing alone time doesn't mean you're lonely. Credit - Illustration by Sol Cotti for TIME. A s a recent college graduate in a new city, Samantha Elliott thought she'd be lonely. Instead, she ...
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
In a review of How to Be Alone for The A.V. Club, Andy Battaglia called Franzen's conclusions "a lot more heartening than might be expected", and found that the collection of essays was made far more interesting by both Franzen's tone of anxiety, as well as the controversies surrounding The Corrections being selected for Oprah's Book Club. [4]