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Interview Details
Title & Link
Maggie Nelson on the Conversations She Wants to Be Having | The New Yorker
Publish Date
April 7, 2024
Interviewees
Maggie Nelson
Interviewers
Lauren Michele Jackson
Publisher
The New Yorker
Topics
art and theory
certainty in writing
Criticism
desired conversations
despair in art
embodied lives
ethics in writing
genre in writing
Interpretation of Art
literary conversations
love and art
performative aspect of writing
performativity in language
reading experiences
reading old work
teaching
People Mentioned
Ben Lerner
Björk
Chantal Akerman
David Kishik
Eileen Myles
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Francis Bacon
Fred Moten
Harry Dodge
Herve Guibert
Hilton Als
Ian Penman
Jacqueline Rose
Judith Butler
Moyra Davey
Roland Barthes
Simone White
Toni Morrison
Wayne Koestenbaum
William Carlos Williams
Works Mentioned
10:04
Black and Blur
Jane: A Murder
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
My Mother Laughs
Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition
The Argonauts
The Art of Cruelty
The Red Parts
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Places Mentioned
Los Angeles
New York
Northern California
West Hollywood
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