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Like Love

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Essays and Conversations
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Maggie Nelson
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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.

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$20.00
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978-1-64445-336-0
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Paperback
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352
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5.5 x 8.25
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A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists

About the Author

Maggie  Nelson
Credit: Sarah St Clair Renard

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award–winner The Argonauts, and On Freedom. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

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VIRTUAL: The Brooklyn Rail's "New Social Environment" series presents Maggie Nelson in conversation with Darcey Steinke

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Maggie Nelson reading and in conversation with Leni Zumas about LIKE LOVE and PATHEMATA at Powell's

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Free and open to the public. Copies of Like Love will be available for purchase from Powell's.

Maggie Nelson reading and in conversation with Eula Biss about LIKE LOVE at Ramova Theatre, presented by Chicago Humanities Festival

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Ramova Theatre in Chicago, ILview map
LOCATION: Ramova Theatre (Loft space). Chicago Humanities is partnering with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. Pre-order Like Love or Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth through the Chicago Humanities Box Office and save up to 20% while supporting local, independent bookselling. Add books to your cart when adding tickets. Your receipt will contain a book voucher, which you show to the bookseller on-site to pick up your book(s). Click here for details and ticketing.

Praise

  • “We have a sense, I think, of the false border sequestering art from theory. And so to remark on Maggie Nelson’s facility in mating the two is to say the least about how she does so—which is with a hurtling gusto that nonetheless invites us to pause and think.”—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker
  • Like Love is a personal intellectual genealogy, both a chart of Nelson’s influences, collaborators, and intimate friendships, and a map of her mind at work. . . . Throughout Like Love, Nelson is herself a poet of the question spirit.”—Walton Muyumba, The Boston Globe
  • “Readers can practically watch Nelson’s incisive mind growing and changing as she speaks with colleagues such as Hilton Als and Judith Butler, or as she writes about queerness, motherhood, violence, the lyrics of Prince and the devastating loss of a friend.”—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times
  • “Nelson’s admiration and enthusiasm for her subjects is a palpable driver of joy and delight. . . . A revelatory gathering of beloved art and artists presented with distinctive prose.”Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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