Like Love
Essays and Conversations
by Maggie Nelson
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Pub Date Apr 02 2024 | Archive Date Mar 31 2024
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
“Maggie Nelson’s shimmering genius is on full display in this collection. Like Love is a celebration of friendship and outlaw communities of artists and writers that demonstrates how we can hold onto love as we hurtle uncertainly into the future.”—Cathy Park Hong
“A luminous gathering of dispatches from the delicate adventure of thinking alongside other people. Like Love is a reminder of wow.”—Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
“Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft: there is her ceaseless curiosity, her capacity not only to hold complexity but to court it with equal parts desire and critique, the generosity and gratitude of her thinking held by gorgeous turns of phrase.”—Johanna Hedva, author of Your Love Is Not Good and “Sick Woman Theory”
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644452813 |
| PRICE | $32.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Bookseller 1145971
A new Maggie Nelson book is always cause for celebration. Here, in "Like Love" Maggie explores what is something that is "like love, but not love" in a myriad of colors and ways, expanding our minds in the process. Much thanks to NetGalley and Graywolf Press for the opportunity to read another one of Maggie's amazing works.
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