Like Love
  • Published: 16 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781911717027
  • Imprint: Fern Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00

Like Love

Essays and Conversations

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16 Apr 2024
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23 May 2024
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23 May 2024
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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 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.
  • Published: 16 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781911717027
  • Imprint: Fern Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (a New York Times Editor’s Choice) and The Argonauts (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

portrait photo of Maggie Nelson

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Praise for Like Love

Maggie Nelson's shimmering genius is on full display in this collection

Cathy Park Hong

Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft

Johanna Hedva

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 (starred review)

One of the most wonderful, poetic minds of this generation

Paste

Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic

Sinéad Gleeson

Maggie Nelson’s shimmering genius is on full display in this collection. Like Love not only spans the breadth of her generous and supple thinking but also highlights the steadfast consistency of her principles, which seek to elucidate the aesthetic, moral and political conditions that could expand our notion of human coexistence. I'm grateful for her theories that always bring light to the murk, that hold and think through opposing arguments to find the meridian points between. 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