en

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including the National Books Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, The Red Parts, and Jane: A Murder. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, an Innovative Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2016, she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.
years of life: 1973 present

Books

Audiobooks

Quotes

Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
When my whole point was that the very formation of subjects, the very formation of persons, presupposes gender in a certain way—that gender is not to be chosen and that “performativity” is not radical choice and it’s not voluntarism…. Performativity has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.
Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.
Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I’ve so obviously gotten everything I’d ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

Impressions

Juan Carlos Francoshared an impression5 months ago
🔮Hidden Depths
👍Worth reading

  • unavailable
    Maggie Nelson
    The Argonauts
    • 207
    • 343
    • 11
    • 26
  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBooksshared an impression2 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    👍Worth reading

  • unavailable
    Maggie Nelson
    Bluets
    • 261
    • 1.3K
    • 22
    • 32
  • fb2epub
    Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)