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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (Pantheon Graphic Library)
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About Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Product Description From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This—a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. In Seek You, Kristen Radtke's wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. Through the lenses of gender and violence, technology and art, Radtke ushers us through a history of loneliness and longing, and shares what feels impossible to share. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to the rise of Instagram, the bootstrap-pulling cowboy to the brutal experiments of Harry Harlow, Radtke investigates why we engage with each other, and what we risk when we turn away. With her distinctive, emotionally-charged drawings and deeply empathetic prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully shines a light on some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments, and asks how we might keep the spaces between us from splitting entirely. Review One of . . . Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 • BuzzFeed’s 28 New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List ASAP • StyleBlueprint’s 2021 Summer Reading List picks • Vulture’s 35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer • Vogue’s Best Books to Read This Summer • Lit Hub’s 75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer • Daily Beast’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 • The Boston Globe’s Summer Reading 2021 Picks • BuzzFeed’s 58 Great Books to Read This Summer • The Washington Post’s 10 Books to Read in July • NPR’s July Book-Ahead Picks • Oprah Daily’s 18 of the Best Books to Pick Up This July • TIME’s 11 New Books You Should Read in July • Bustle’s 43 Most Anticipated New Books of July 2021 • Book Riot’s 2021 Reading List for Adults • The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books for the Second-Half of 2021 “[Radtke] portrays loneliness not as innate or natural so much as socialized, filtered through and irradiated by culture, politics, and media. For her, the feeling is shaped by the imperfect conditions in which we live . . . Paging through Radtke’s book, I was again pulled in by the deserted streets and darkened rooms, and by the anonymous, sifting crowds. Ambience can go where words cannot. One can sink deep into the images of Seek You.” —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “[ Seek You] combines documentary, memoir, reporting, and stunning art . . . Through vivid images of people fumbling with house keys late at night, falling asleep on the subway, leaving a liquor store, Radtke shows how recognizable and universal loneliness is—but also how easy it is to remove ourselves from others’ loneliness, to turn theirs into an experience incompatible with our own. . . . [A] generous reading of other people and their loneliness is what Radtke’s book seems to call for—a willingness to read loneliness where we might otherwise see monstrosity, to read love where we see loneliness.” —Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic “Part literature review, part essay, part autobiographical meditation, Seek You exemplifies the capaciousness of nonfiction comics today . . . The book’s title, a nod to the amateur radio operator 'CQ call,' is evidence of Radtke’s significant command of interesting facts, which range over five sections dedicated to various senses (plus 'Click,' about life online, now its own special category of being in the world) . . . Radtke’s aesthetic is impressive, with clean, crisp black lines, swaths of white shadow and stylized, muted blocks of color. She has a designer’s eye for arresting graphics.” —Hillary Chute, The New York Times Book Review “Kristen Radtke’s Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness defies categorization — and it does so in spectacular fashion . . . The beauty of Seek You is that it feels like a communal experienc
