Nonfiction Dialogues with Maggie Nelson
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- September 30, 2020
Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program
Maggie Nelson in conversation with Lis Harris.
Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program presents the Nonfiction Dialogues. In it's 15th year, the series is a student-initiated evening series in which Professor and Writing Program Chair Lis Harris interviews distinguished nonfiction writers about their work and careers. Recent guests have included Eula Biss, Alexander Chee, John D’Agata, Ian Frazier, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Mary Roach.
Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (2007; reissued 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007). Her next book, a work of cultural criticism titled On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, will be published in September 2021. Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (2007) and Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir). She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA in Poetry, an Innovative Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2016 she was awarded a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She currently teaches at USC and lives in Los Angeles.
Lis Harris, a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, is the Chair of Columbia University’s School of the Arts Writing Department, where she has taught since 1996. In addition to innumerable articles, reviews and commentaries, she is the author of Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Rules of Engagement -- Four Couples and American Marriage, and Tilting at Windmills. A two-time Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient, she has been awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Rockefeller Fund, and the German Marshall Fund. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists. Her latest book is In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family (2019).
can't wait for this book
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This video, a year old, only has 3 comments and 3000 views. A testament to her popularity, lol.