Maggie Nelson's Reading List

"I have a soft spot for books by tough, radically honest women with an uncommon antenna for magic, language and landscape," says Maggie Nelson, the author, most recently, of "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint."

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By the Book: Maggie Nelson (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-08-26).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli · Buy on Amazon

"The difference between the present and the future is only a product of "our own blurred vision of the world" — I could (and will) read and think about such things again and again until they begin to sink in."

The Loser

Thomas Bernhard · Buy on Amazon

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

"I recently read "Go Tell It on the Mountain" for the first time."

Last Chance Texaco

Rickie Lee Jones · Buy on Amazon

"I am reading Rickie Lee Jones's "Last Chance Texaco" right now, for example, and really enjoying it."

Mysteries of Small Houses

Alice Notley · Buy on Amazon

"It reminds me of two other autobiographical books by poets that I love: Alice Notley's "Mysteries of Small Houses" and Joy Harjo's "Crazy Brave.""

Crazy Brave

Joy Harjo · Buy on Amazon

Grief Lessons

Anne Carson · Buy on Amazon

""Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief": This is the sound of hot, lucid criticism cutting to the chase."

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