PositiveThe Chicago ReaderBesides being a first-rate biography, Trouble Boys imposes order on an unrelenting barrage of grotesque behavior that was leavened by several of the most beautiful, inchoate records of the 80s.
Olivia Laing
MixedThe Miami HeraldLoneliness...is a muse, to be courted with caution. In Laing’s rendering it can 'cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive' as much as mitigate what in another elegant phrase she calls 'the small accumulation of positive regard' that the internet provides. Rueful and self-aware, The Lonely City discovers itself in the act of writing; in its modest way, it carves a space amid Laing’s beloved outsider art.
