This is an excerpt from Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radkte, out with Pantheon Books.
An excerpt from Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, a new graphic novel by Kristen Radtke.
This is an excerpt from Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radkte, out with Pantheon Books.
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This (2017), and Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021), both with Pantheon. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine.
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