Nelson investigates freedom as conceptualized and practiced through art, sex, drugs and the climate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-13 12:00:00 UTC ]
Michelle Tea, author of 'Against Memoir,' picks books by Maggie Nelson, Imogen Binnie, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maggie Nelson has been named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her work that blends frank autobiography with criticism and philosophy. A poet who leads the MFA program at CalArts, Nelson’s work wrestles with issues of gender, LGBT theory, art and violence; her most recent books are the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The current wave of confessional writing from media-savvy young women walks an unsteady line between extending the politics of the personal and unit-shifting titillation“I get naked on TV. A lot,” writes Lena Dunham in her bestselling memoir Not That Kind of Girl. Exhibitionism isn’t new to her,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Beatty's novel 'The Sellout', Margo Jefferson's memoir 'Negroland' and Maggie Nelson's critical work, 'The Argonauts', were among the books awarded 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Melville House UK has acquired the “genre-bending” memoir of American poet, critic and non-fiction author, Maggie Nelson. Managing director Zeljka Marosevic bought rights for the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada, from Katie Dublinski at Graywolf Press. This will be the first time Nelson’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]