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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.25pt">Yale Library Book Talk:
<i>This Exquisite Loneliness</i> by Richard Deming</span></b><b><span style="text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span class="date-display-single"><b><span style="color:black">Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - </span></b></span><span class="date-display-start"><b><span style="color:black">4:00pm</span></b></span><span class="date-display-range"><b><span style="color:black"> to </span></b></span><span class="date-display-end"><b><span style="color:black">5:30pm</span></b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span class="fn"><b><span style="color:black">Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall,
</span></b></span><b><span style="color:black">120 High Street</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="color:black">Richard Deming, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Creative Writing, will discuss his new book
<i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710076/this-exquisite-loneliness-by-richard-deming/">This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity</a></i> with Karin Roffman, Associate Director of
Public Humanities. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">In <i>This Exquisite Loneliness</i>, Richard Deming turns an eye toward that unwelcome feeling, both in his own experiences and the lives of six groundbreaking figures, to find the context of loneliness and to see what some people
have done to navigate this profound sense of discomfort. Within the back stories to Melanie Klein’s contributions to psychoanalysis, Zora Neale Hurston’s literary and ethnographic writing, the philosophical essays of Walter Benjamin, Walker Evans’s photography
of urban alienation, Egon Schiele’s revolutionary artwork and Rod Serling’s uncanny narratives in
<i>The Twilight Zone</i>, Deming explores how loneliness has served as fuel for an intense creative desire that has forged some of the most original and innovative art and writing of the twentieth century. This singular meditation on loneliness reveals how
we might transform the pain of emotional isolation and become more connected to others and more at home with our often-unquiet selves.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">In addition to his roles at Yale, Richard Deming is a poet, critic, and essayist, is the author of six books, including <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Touch of Evil, Day for Night</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Art
of the Ordinary</span></em>. More information: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710076/this-exquisite-loneliness-by-richard-deming/">
This Exquisite Loneliness by Richard Deming</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.25pt">CONTACT: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://library.yale.edu/events/book-talks"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.05pt">Yale University Library</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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