Richard Deming, This Exquisite Loneliness

We are thrilled to host Richard Deming, author of n examination of the life and work of six brilliant minds of the twentieth century, intent on answering the question “What can be done not despite but  loneliness?” This Exquisite Loneliness, abecause of

At an unprecedented rate, loneliness is moving around the globe—from self-isolating technology and political division to community decay and social fragmentation—and yet it is not a feeling to which we readily admit. It is stigmatized, freighted with shame and fear, and easy to dismiss as mere emotional neediness. But what if instead of shying away from loneliness, we embraced it as something we can learn from and as something that will draw us closer to one another?  In , Richard Deming turns an eye toward that unwelcome feeling, both in his own experiences and the lives of six groundbreaking figures, to find the context of loneliness and to see what some…