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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.
‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
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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