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Maggie Nelson
November 14, 2024
Cora Currier
Beyond the Motherhood Memoir
Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.
June 29, 2016
Moira Donegan
Christina Crosby’s Impossible Memoir of Pain
When Crosby was paralyzed by an accident, both she and her friend Maggie Nelson reckoned with it in their writing.
June 25, 2015
Jordan Kisner
Why Are So Many Female Writers Turning Their Novels Into Diaries?
April 24, 2015
Whitney Mallett
Bodies in Flux
Maggie Nelson's latest book, 'The Argonauts', captures life's messiness

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