Seek You

Zusatztext ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Electric Literature, Kirkus A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award One of ... Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 • BuzzFeed's 28 New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List ASAP • StyleBlueprint's 2021 Summer Reading List picks • V ulture's 35 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer • Vogue 's Best Books to Read This Summer • Lit Hub's 75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer • Daily Beast's Best Summer Reads of 2021 • The Boston Globe' s Summer Reading 2021 Picks • BuzzFeed's 58 Great Books to Read This Summer • The Washington Post' s 10 Books to Read in July • NPR's July Book-Ahead Picks • Oprah Daily's 18 of the Best Books to Pick Up This July • TIME 's 11 New Books You Should Read in July • Bustle's 43 Most Anticipated New Books of July 2021 • Book Riot's 2021 Reading List for Adults • The Millions's Most Anticipated Books for the Second-Half of 2021 [Radtke] portrays loneliness not as innate or natural so much as socialized, filtered through and irradiated by culture, politics, and media. For her, the feeling is shaped by the imperfect conditions in which we live . . . Paging through Radtke's book, I was again pulled in by the deserted streets and darkened rooms, and by the anonymous, sifting crowds. Ambience can go where words cannot. One can sink deep into the images of Seek You . Katy Waldman, The New Yorker [ Seek You ] combines documentary, memoir, reporting, and stunning art . . . Through vivid images of people fumbling with house keys late at night, falling asleep on the subway, leaving a liquor store, Radtke shows how recognizable and universal loneliness isbut also how easy it is to remove ourselves from others' loneliness, to turn theirs into an experience incompatible with our own. . . . [A] generous reading of other people and their loneliness is what Radtke's book seems to call fora willingness to read loneliness where we might otherwise see monstrosity, to read love where we see loneliness. Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic Part literature review, part essay, part autobiographical meditation, Seek You exemplifies the capaciousness of nonfiction comics today . . . The book's title, a nod to the amateur radio operator 'CQ call,' is evidence of Radtke's significant command of interesting facts, which range over five sections dedicated to various senses (plus 'Click,' about life online, now its own special category of being in the world) . . . Radtke's aesthetic is impressive, with clean, crisp black lines, swaths of white shadow and stylized, muted blocks of color. She has a designer's eye for arresting graphics. Hillary Chute, The New York Times Book Review Kristen Radtke's Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness defies categorization and it does so in spectacular fashion . . . The beauty of Seek You is that it feels like a communal experience. Reading this book is reading about ourselves and our lives . . . The art is superb and each section uses different colors to set the mood, but words take center stage more often than the art, and that turns the art into the perfect companion . . . Seek You accomplishes a lot and its unique hybrid nature makes it a must-read. Gabino Iglesias, NPR [A] resonant, haunting volume of graphic nonfiction written and drawn in the key of Edward Hopper . . . It's the juxtaposition of Radtke's carefully researched,...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Electric Literature, Kirkus

A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction
A Finalist for the  Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

One of ... Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 • BuzzFeed’s 28 New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List ASAP • StyleBlueprint’s 2021 Summer Reading List picks •  Vulture’s 35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer • Vogue’s Best Books to Read This Summer • Lit Hub’s 75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer • Daily Beast’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 • The Boston Globe’s Summer Reading 2021 Picks • BuzzFeed’s 58 Great Books to Read This Summer • The Washington Post’s 10 Books to Read in July • NPR’s July Book-Ahead Picks • Oprah Daily’s 18 of the Best Books to Pick Up This July • TIME’s 11 New Books You Should Read in July • Bustle’s 43 Most Anticipated New Books of July 2021 • Book Riot’s 2021 Reading List for Adults • The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books for the Second-Half of 2021

“[Radtke] portrays loneliness not as innate or natural so much as socialized, filtered through and irradiated by culture, politics, and media. For her, the feeling is shaped by the imperfect conditions in which we live . . . Paging through Radtke’s book, I was again pulled in by the deserted streets and darkened rooms, and by the anonymous, sifting crowds. Ambience can go where words cannot. One can sink deep into the images of Seek You.”
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

“[Seek You] combines documentary, memoir, reporting, and stunning art . . . Through vivid images of people fumbling with house keys late at night, falling asleep on the subway, leaving a liquor store, Radtke shows how recognizable and universal loneliness is—but also how easy it is to remove ourselves from others’ loneliness, to turn theirs into an experience incompatible with our own. . . . [A] generous reading of other people and their loneliness is what Radtke’s book seems to call for—a willingness to read loneliness where we might otherwise see monstrosity, to read love where we see loneliness.”
—Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic

“Part literature review, part essay, part autobiographical meditation, Seek You exemplifies the capaciousness of nonfiction comics today . . . The book’s title, a nod to the amateur radio operator 'CQ call,' is evidence of Radtke’s significant command of interesting facts, which range over five sections dedicated to various senses (plus 'Click,' about life online, now its own special category of being in the world) . . . Radtke’s aesthetic is impressive, with clean, crisp black lines, swaths of white shadow and stylized, muted blocks of color. She has a designer’s eye for arresting graphics.”
—Hillary Chute, The New York Times Book Review

“Kristen Radtke’s Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness defies categorization — and it does so in spectacular fashion . . . The beauty of Seek You is that it feels like a communal experience. Reading this book is reading about ourselves and our lives . . . The art is superb and each section uses different colors to set the mood, but words take center stage more often than the art, and that turns the art into the perfect companion . . . Seek You accomplishes a lot and its unique hybrid nature makes it a must-read.”
—Gabino Iglesias, NPR

“[A] resonant, haunting volume of graphic nonfiction written and drawn in the key of Edward Hopper . . . It’s the juxtaposition of Radtke’s carefully researched, tightly composed text with the emotive immediacy of her art that amplifies the book’s impact . . . There’s comfort to be found too, in the skillful elegance with which the author conveys her ideas . . . Seek You i…