'Left with yourself'

Inman Square in Boston

— Photo by Tim Pierce

“Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.”

― Ann Douglas, English professor emerita at Columbia who got her PhD at Harvard