In her new book, KristenRadtke writes about the loneliness epidemic — and why we’re desperate for touch
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Amy Ritter, Pantheon Loneliness, writes Kristen Radtke, is “a variance that rests in the space between the relationships you have and the relationships you want.” In her new book of graphic nonfiction, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, the writer and illustrator — who is currently the art director and deputy publisher of the Believer — renders loneliness in vibrant color.
In the book, you draw a parallel between your father using ham radio in the ’60s as a child and you using dial-up internet to get into ’90s chat rooms that suggests every generation experiences loneliness. It’s just something woven into the tapestry of the human experience. Why is it now an emergency?
You also point out that there’s a unique strain of American loneliness embedded in America’s infrastructure and identity — the frontier myth of lone cowboys, the art of Edward Hopper, and the abundance of “loner” mass shooters. Can you speak to that a little? I don’t think I ever made a conscious decision. I never said, “This is the style for this book,” or, “This is what loneliness looks like to me.” It just became refined over time by the fact that I was drawing every day. The biggest challenge for me with this book was color. I’ve never worked in color before, especially in a long-term project. So I was really learning the language of color and recognizing that it actually is a language. Color can communicate as much as shape.
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