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Book

Like love : essays and conversations

Call Number

  • 814 N428 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2024]

Physical Description

xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker--but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making. Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson's own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Lights up: a preface
  • Say after me: conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Almost there: on Eve Sedgwick's The Weather in Proust
  • Beyond all change: on Ben Lerner's 10:04
  • From importunate to meretricious, with love: conversation with Brian Blanchfield
  • Changing the forms in dreams: on Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette
  • A girl walks into a bar...: on Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn's The Deadman
  • Porousness, perversity, pharmacopornographia: on Matthew Barney's OTTO trilogy
  • The grind: on Prince
  • If I didn't tell it: on Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship
  • The reenchantment of Carolee Schneemann
  • By sociality, to sociality: on Fred Moten's Black and Blur
  • A life, a face, a gaze: conversation with Moyra Davey
  • Suicide Blonde at 25: on Darcey Steinke
  • Like love: a tribute to Hilton Als
  • O that wave: on Samantha Hunt's The Seas
  • No excuses: the art of Sarah Lucas
  • A continuity, imagined: conversation with Björk
  • The understory: on Kara Walker's Event Horizon
  • Eighteen theses on Rachel Harrison
  • At Girò's: on rereading Natalia Ginzburg's "Winter in the Abruzzi" at the start of a pandemic
  • Coming hungry to no wrong holes: the art of Nayland Blake
  • The longest road: conversation with Jacqueline Rose
  • This living hand, or, my Hervé Guibert
  • I just want to know what else might be available: conversation with Simone White
  • The dare of Tala Madani
  • My brilliant friend: on Lhasa de Sela
  • The call: in honor of Judith Butler
  • The inoculation: on Dani and Sheilah ReStack's Feral Domestic trilogy
  • For who knows how long: on Ari Marcopoulos's Zines
  • And with trees: conversation with Eileen Myles.

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Essays.