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Publications

“How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many?” in the Los Angeles Times

”The Girl Detective Goes Digital” in the New York Times Book Review

“The Art of Conversation” in the Financial Times

“The Trouble with a Well-Manicured Lawn” in the Los Angeles Times

“Letter of Recommendation: Gossip” in The New York Times Magazine

“Diana, the Lonely Princess” in Vanity Fair

“The stigma of the lonely woman” in Vox

“Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness” in The New York Times Book Review

“Becoming My Neighborhood's Plant Lady” at Elle

“What Books Are Good For At The End of The World” at The New York Times Book Review

“The Self-Help Life Cycle” at The New York Times Book Review

“On Dying Alone” at NPR, with Ryan Kellman

“What’s Your Most Important Memory of Touch?” at The Atlantic

“Why We Turn to Gardening in Times of Crisis” at Vogue

“What Do We Lose When We Stop Touching Each Other?” at The New York Times

“Your Milk-Preference Horoscope” at The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts

“Body of work: how the graphic novel became an outlet for female shame” at The Guardian

Illustrated 100th anniversary edition of Virginia Wolf’s Night and Day, introduced by Lauren Groff.

“An Illustrated Homage to the Oceans Atlas” in The New York Times Book Review

“What’s the Loneliest You’ve Ever Felt?” in The Atlantic

“Beginning at The End:” a comic in Marie Claire

“The Lonely Men of Prestige TV” in GQ

A graphic review of Jamel Brinkley's A Lucky Man in the Los Angeles Times

Imagine Wanting Only This published by Jonathan Cape in the U.K. on April 5, 2018

A "Year in Reading" at The Millions

Drawings for the Bodega Project at Electric Literature

A section of Imagine Wanting Only This at Huffington Post

Graphic essay and excerpt from Imagine Wanting Only This at BOMB

Graphic essay and excerpt from Imagine Wanting Only This "We Forget That Everything Will Become No Longer Ours" at Buzzfeed

Graphic series "The Loneliness of the Solitary Job" at the New Yorker

Graphic series "The Loneliness of Longing for Other People's Apartments" at the New Yorker

Graphic series "The Loneliness of the Subway Nap" at the New Yorker

A comic in RESIST!, a newspaper of political cartoons created by Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman

Three illustrations in the 2017 winter issue of Virginia Quarterly Review

Graphic series "The Loneliness of the Parking Lot Phone Call" at the New Yorker

Graphic essay "The Safest Place in Kentucky" at Oxford American

Media

Seek You a July book at TIME, Vanity Fair, Oprah Daily, NPR, Washington Post and Bustle

On the cover of Kirkus Reviews

Seek You selected as an Indie Next Pick by the Independent Booksellers Association

Seek You named a summer book by New York Magazine, Vogue, Harper’s BAZAAR, Boston Globe, Daily Beast, Observer, Buzzfeed, Refinery29, Kirkus Reviews and Literary Hub

Starred reviews for Seek You in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Booklist

“Kristen Radtke Writes, and Draws, Our Loneliness:” a feature in Publishers Weekly

Seek You named a most anticipated book of 2021 by Buzzfeed, LitHub, and The Week

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness named a most anticipated graphic novel by Publishers Weekly

Forthcoming book Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness awarded a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

“Best Books to Read After A Breakup” at O, The Oprah Magazine

Imagine Wanting Only This named a best book of 2018 by The Guardian

Imagine Wanting Only This The Guardian's "Graphic Novel of the Month"

The Guardian's "Fresh Voices: 50 Writers You Should Read Now"

Imagine Wanting Only This named a best graphic novel of 2017 by Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, Booklist and Barnes and Noble, a best book of 2017 by Buzzfeed, and a best nonfiction book of 2017 by Nylon, Electric Literature, and Kirkus Reviews