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On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets])

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&nbsp;This Longreads essay, published in 2020, evolved into a chapter in Sarah Fay’s book, , published in March 2022 by HarperCollins.It’s decidedly male and often nationalistic, a symbol of American independence. It’s Thoreau, who writes inLooking back, that time I spent in solitude is bracketed; that’s how it’s punctuated for me now.What about other media? Television? Radio? Do these media release us from solitude, rescue us from isolation, save us from loneliness?Brackets emit a feeling of enclosure. Which is how I now see those four remote years: walled off, the self alone with the self, inside the self.Brackets represent our internal lives, our deepest secrets.* * *’s&nbsp;writing appears in many publications, including&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;The Atlantic,&nbsp;Time Magazine,&nbsp;The New Republic,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Michigan Quarterly Review,&nbsp;The Rumpus, The&nbsp;Millions,&nbsp;McSweeney’s, The Believer, and&nbsp;The Paris Review.* * *Editor:Fact-checker:Copy-editor: Jacob Z. Gross[wordads width=300 height=250][wordads width=300 height=250], ,, , , , , ,You must be to post a comment.bloggers like this:

&nbsp;This Longreads essay, published in 2020, evolved into a chapter in Sarah Fay’s book, , published in March 2022 by HarperCollins.It’s decidedly male and often nationalistic, a symbol of American independence. It’s Thoreau, who writes inLooking back, that time I spent in solitude is bracketed; that’s how it’s punctuated for me now.What about other media? Television? Radio? Do these media release us from solitude, rescue us from isolation, save us from loneliness?Brackets emit a feeling of enclosure. Which is how I now see those four remote years: walled off, the self alone with the...

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