《孤独故事集》内容简介

　　如果你正感到孤独，或是你曾感到自己形同透明人，如果独处使你更具勇气，或是你正隐秘地渴望独处：欢迎你来阅读这本《孤独故事集》！

　　虽然谈论孤独往往是禁忌，甚至令人羞耻，但不可否认的是，我们时不时都在经历孤独。

　　本书力邀二十一位美国当代知名作家，围绕“孤独”展开创作，分享自己的亲身经历，为读者提供一系列切入点，触及孤独与性别、性欲、成瘾、移民、不安全、疾病等议题。

　　尤其值得一提的是书中多篇讨论“女性孤独”的文章。我们的社会期待女性通过社交与情感将一切人事物弥合起来，把享受孤独的女人视作女巫或怪胎。因此，为女性提供更多空间来审视并接纳她们的孤独，是迫在眉睫的任务。

　　本书的编写开始于新冠大流行之前，但其中的大部分内容都写就于漫长的隔离期间。那段剑拔弩张的隔离期，使得编写这本书的初心激起了更为强烈的共鸣，它所提供的治愈也变得越发必要。

　　二十一位作家轮流尝试浸入孤独之中，努力不沉溺于孤独，通过“自我发现”丰满自身。阅读他们的文章，有助于缓解我们的些许孤独感，并提醒我们要对孤单温柔以待。

　　作者简介

　　【关于编者】

　　娜塔莉•伊芙•嘉瑞特（NatalieEveGarrett），美国艺术家、作家。曾编辑出版《吃出快乐:31位知名作家的故事与安慰食物》，这是一本附有食谱的个人故事合集，探讨食物如何帮助我们应对黑暗时期，以及《艺术家和作家的烹饪书:食谱故事集》（强力图书公司，2016）。毕业于耶鲁大学，并获得宾夕法尼亚大学获得绘画硕士学位。与丈夫、女儿和儿子住在华盛顿特区外的波托马克河畔小镇。

　　【关于作者们】

　　包括21位当代美国知名作家，他们活跃于各类文化舞台，大部分小说家，作品获得过大大小小文学奖项，登上过纽约时报畅销书排行榜，另有一些人在编剧、导演、演讲等领域获得了令人瞩目的成绩。他们都擅长散文书写，作品散见于《纽约客》《格兰塔》《纽约时报》等英美一流刊物，也有一些轻松的时尚杂志，比如《嘉人》《Vogue》，等等。

A brief introduction to Lonely Tales

If you are feeling lonely, or if you have ever felt invisible, if being alone has made you more courageous, or if you are secretly longing to be alone: you are welcome to read the Lonely Stories!

While talking about loneliness is often taboo and even shameful, there's no denying that we all experience it from time to time.

This book invites 21 well-known contemporary American writers to create works around "loneliness", share their personal experiences, and provide readers with a series of entry points, touching on loneliness and gender, sexuality, addiction, immigration, insecurity, disease and other issues.

In particular, there are several articles in the book that discuss "female loneliness". Our society expects women to bridge everything socially and emotionally, and treats women who enjoy being alone as witches or freaks. Therefore, it is urgent to provide more space for women to examine and accept their loneliness.

Work on the book began before the coronavirus pandemic, but much of it was written during the long period of quarantine. That period of intense isolation made the original purpose of the book resonate even more powerfully, and the healing it offered all the more necessary.

Twenty-one writers take turns trying to immerse themselves in loneliness, trying not to wallow in loneliness, enriching themselves through "self-discovery." Reading them can help ease some of our loneliness and remind us to be gentle about it.

About the author

【 About the Editor 】

NatalieEveGarrett is an American artist and writer. He edited and published "Eating Out of Joy: Stories and Comfort Food from 31 Well-known Authors," a collection of personal stories accompanied by recipes that explores how food can help us cope with Dark Times, and "Cookbooks for Artists and Writers: A Collection of Recipe Stories" (Power Books, 2016). He graduated from Yale University and received a master's degree in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, daughter, and son in a small town on the Potomac River outside of Washington, D.C.

【 About the authors 】

Including 21 contemporary American famous writers, they are active in various cultural stages, most of the novelists, the works have won large and small literary awards, on the New York Times bestseller list, and some in the field of scriptwriting, directing, speechmaking has achieved remarkable achievements. Both of them are good at prose writing, and their work has been published in the New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times and other first-class British and American publications, as well as some relaxed fashion magazines, such as Marie Claire, Vogue, and so on.