Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
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Rachel Zucker speaks to poet, critic and professor Maggie Nelson about her new manuscript-in-progress, what it feels like to have written two unusually successful small press books, her (non) relationship to the internet, going on tour, book parties, what it’s like to be in the role of mentor and how that changes her relationship to her mentors, the sadistic edge of being a student, why she only writes about people she likes and hardly writes reviews, freedom and care, ways of demonstrating compassion, suspending reactivity, spiritual practice, midlife notions of emancipation, motherhood, how to develop methodologies to combat the anxiety of aging, how to honor various states (and ages) of knowing, whether libretory or emancipatory projects are a young person’s game, what is not transmittable across generations, disentanglement vs. entanglement, lucidity, and so much more.
Books by Maggie Nelson
Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2018)
The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2015)
The Latest Winter (Zed Books, 2018)
Shiner (Zed Books, 2018)
The Art of Cruelty (W.W. Norton, 2012)
Women, The New York School and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
Bluets (Wave Books, 2009)
The Red Parts (Graywolf, 2007)
Jane (Soft Skull, 2005)
Other Authors and Texts Mentioned in the Episode
Avital Ronell’s Crack Wars (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era by Paul B. Preciado and Bruce Benderson (Feminist Press, 2013)
The Road of Excess: A History of Writer’s on Drugs by Marcus Boon (Harvard University Press, 2005)
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019)
Black and Blur by Fred Moten (Duke University Press, 2017)
Claudia Rankine (Ep 4)
Wayne Kostenbaum (Ep 9)
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