Join Diesel, A Bookstore on on Tuesday March 4th at 6:30 pm as we welcome Emily Hodgson Anderson to the store to discuss and sign Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life.  Joining her in conversation will be Grace Franklin. 

How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection. She delves into the unseen labor of women, authors, and mothers, and she argues that we can reimagine intimacy through books. Herself a book lover and writer, a teacher of literature, and a single mom, Anderson reflects on the loneliness—and the strength—that can come from living, writing, and parenting alone.