Liars' League NYC is a live literary journal featuring professionally trained actors reading original short stories by both up-and-coming and well-established writers. On April 2nd at the monthly meeting held in KGB bar my short story 'Rise' was read by the actor Matt Alford. It's a slight comedy about a plane that witnesses the apocalypse/rapture from above. You can listen to it below.
“Loneliness weakens. Aloneness empowers. Aloneness makes of us something so much more than we are in the midst of others whose claim is that they know us.”
- Joyce Carol Oates from The Lost Landscape
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
- May Sarton
“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”
—Marianne Moore
"If aloneness is inevitable, I want to believe that aloneness is what I have desired because it is happiness itself."
-Yiyun Li from 'Amongst People'
“Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city.”
-Olivia Laing from “The Lonely City”
