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Maggie Nelson
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
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In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon…
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A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache…
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson’s _The Argonauts _is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh…
Published in a beautiful, collectible edition and for the first time in the UK, Something Bright, Then Holes is Maggie Nelson’s third collection of poetry from Zed Books.
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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day
*A GUARDIAN ‘BOOKS OF 2021’ PICK*
‘One of the most electrifying writers…
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A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day’s most pressing questions about representations of violence in art.
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These…
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Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary…
Lena Nelson Dooley
A secret adoption, a quest for identity, and a love that could change her life forever.
Margaret Lenora Caine has never fit the mold her mother set for her. When…
Samantha Hunt
A reissue of Samantha Hunt’s award-winning novel, with a new introduction from Maggie Nelson.
"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…
Kate Zambreno
A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued with a new introduction after more than a decade.
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Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a…
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Herve Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS.
Maggie Nelson (CalArts)
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh…
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In this whip-smart study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to…
**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021**
*A GUARDIAN AND TLS…
A new printing of the original limited edition of one of our most widely read and talked-about books, in honor of its tenth anniversary.
Published in a beautiful, collectible edition and for the first time in the UK, Shiner is Maggie Nelson’s first collection of poetry.
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Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The…
Before Maggie Nelson’s name became synonymous with genre-defying, binary-slaying writing, Something Bright, Then Holes introduced readers to a singular voice in the making: exhilarating, fiercely vulnerable, intellectually curious, and one…
Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who…
A genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering … thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story…
Published in a beautiful, collectible edition and for the first time in the UK, The Latest Winter is Maggie Nelson’s second collection of poetry.
Tells the story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969, via a collage of poetry and prose.
Poetry. Maggie Nelson has such drive in her language. Things do not dangle off this drive, but rather get resolutely pushed aside by her poem’s forward motion. Also, she exercises…
Poetry. New poems by the author of SHINER. These poems manage to say everything about everything-each determining day, each shifting sense of inexhaustible person. Back of it all is an…
The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you’re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell… –Maggie…
Darcey Steinke
The intensely-erotic feminist cult classic. Introduced by Maggie Nelson
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Darcey Steinke’s daringly original and sensuously erotic cult classic, which Vanity Fair hailed as a provocative tour through the dark side, now with a brilliant…
Lena Nelson Dooley,Lena Dooley Nelson
On her 18th birthday, Margaret Lenora Caine finds a chest hidden in the attic containing proof that she’s adopted. Dooley’s Maggie’s Journey will take readers along the way to find…
Matthew Barney
A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist’s earliest works, and their continued resonance today
Claudia T Nelson
Snowflake, the Peacock, tells a story that teaches children how to appreciate and value their not-so-appreciated classmates. This story and these exercises changed Maggie and her famiiy’s lives forever.
Thomas Nelson
Between the Mountain and the Sky tells the story of Maggie Doyne’s amazing journey from carefree New Jersey teen to mother of over fifty Nepalese children by the age of…
Maggie Pearson
Alone in the house one night, four friends make up a ghost story. It’s all fun and games until the messages start to appear. And as the shadows get darker…
This book offers glimpses into the rich history of Bayfield, Wisconsin’s most eclectic restaurant, Maggie’s. From its inception as a corner bar with really good food to an expanded eatery…
