Timely ... Uncomfortable ... While The Loneliness Files effectively captures the individual experience of loneliness, I found myself wishing that the book offered more acknowledgement of the potential systemic and societal causes of loneliness ... A convincing argument that being unfastened from the world, being intentionally untethered, has its own value. It has allowed Dixon to bring some of the truth of that experience back for others.
Doleful ... Most gripping, if most troubling, when it induces in its readers the kind of one-sided obsessions it describes and decries. But Dixon is better at evoking an atmosphere of desperate fixation than she is at analyzing loneliness, and when she stops writing about deaths and depravities and starts writing about her feelings, her prose lapses into cliché.
A thought-provoking memoir in essays ... Surprised and touched me ... Compelling ...The author is profoundly inquisitive, exploring and dissecting her eclectic interests.
Dixon’s memoir deftly traverses our exceedingly connected yet somehow lonelier-than-ever world ... It is in the realm of love and romance where The Loneliness Files truly finds its legs—and, likely, the self-awareness a memoir about loneliness needs in order to keep readers engaged.
Highly relevant ... Poignant ... Reflective yet urgent, reverberating with feeling. Dixon beautifully articulates how loneliness is paradoxically a narrative that people experience together, even as they experience it in spaces of isolation, vulnerability, and loss.
Moving and lyrical ... Dixon is honest and vulnerable in these essays, and a sense of melancholy pervades the book. But she also finds moments of clarity and joy in relationships, her home, and in chosen solitude. This quiet, contemplative memoir will resonate with readers.
Candid ... Presents a series of braided essays that explore the loneliness that pervades a world that seems more globalized and interconnected than ever before. Throughout the book, the author cultivates a palpable sense of community with her readers, diving into the dark side of late-stage capitalist society ... An honest and captivating investigation into human connection within an increasingly digital world.
