Podcast
The Ezra Klein Show
The guest described her new book as a manifesto that diagnoses a "quiet catastrophe" in social life and explores how we have lost the skill of simply being together.
Sheila Lyman is the author of the new book, Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls the "quiet catastrophe" brewing in our social lives.
— Episode: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our S...
Episode: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Live...
The guest described her new book as a manifesto that diagnoses a "quiet catastrophe" in social life and explores how we have lost the skill of simply being together.
Sheila Lyman is the author of the new book, Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls the "quiet catastrophe" brewing in our social lives.
One of the things I understand your book is doing is exploring this downstream consequence of isolation, of loneliness, of atomization, which I think is pretty underexplored.
In the book, in the chapter where I talk about third spaces, borrowing this concept from the sociologist Ray Oldenburg, I talk about how third spaces, which are supposed to be those spaces that exist between home and work, are something that becomes increasingly difficult for one particular class, I think, to access.