Maggie Nelson
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Oct 2, 2026
Ocean VuongGUEST
Can I sneak this? There's a poem in that novel, right? Can I sneak poetry? Can I sneak queer theory into it and not assimilate to the novel form that is the 19th century golden age, quote unquote? Again, we have to ask, golden for whom? Because other parts of the world wasn't writing like that.
Ocean VuongGUEST
And so I knew that I wanted to do this mischievous thing that, again, because I had such incredible queer elders, you know, Bono Kapil, Juna Barnes, Arthur Rambeau, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote this really strange novel, Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson.
Ocean VuongGUEST
So relative to them, On Earth was quite formally conservative, I think, right? It was just like a pretty normie book with some weird stuff.
Ocean VuongGUEST
on poetry terms.
ChristopherHOST
It's an incredible voice performance from a great vocalist.
ChristopherHOST
The ninth title on the list here is Bluets by Maggie Nelson.
ChristopherHOST
I tried to read this book again recently, and it was too painful for my heart.
ChristopherHOST
I wasn't ready to return.
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The consequences are political as well as poetic.
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In The Argonauts, 2015, Maggie Nelson powerfully describes the imaginative work and possibility of artistic freedom that come with parenthood, quoting the feminist thinker Susan Freeman's call for the decline of the domestic as a separate inherently female sphere and the vindication of domesticity as an ethic, an affect, an aesthetic and a public.
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The poetry of fatherhood may take a thousand forms.
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The tender strangeness of Coleridge, the jumpy brightness of Lowell, the moving and original memoirs and novels by contemporary poets and writers, including Ben Lerner and Jack Underwood, as well as Nelson.
Matthew GirsonGUEST
Right.
Matthew GirsonGUEST
And there's a book by somebody named Maggie Nelson called on freedom for songs about care and constraints.
Matthew GirsonGUEST
And the introduction is amazing.
Matthew GirsonGUEST
And she sort of talks about, she's not talking about capital F freedom, like as if there's all some like grand liberation and, She's talking about immediate individual acts where care and constraint are navigated in a way that we can navigate what we mean by free in any moment.
Dana DeGiulioGUEST
Oh, my gosh.
Dana DeGiulioGUEST
What if we are? Yeah.
Duncan MacKenzieHOST
So one of the things I think is interesting in both the kind of Maggie Nelson book and in the way that Dana is sort of staging the independence of the object of painting is thinking about how the interview started, where Matthew, you were like, well, we have eight small paintings.
Duncan MacKenzieHOST
And I... busted your chops a little bit about, like, that's not a great, like, you gotta pitch that, friend.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
I have been watching so much reality TV.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
That's not what I'm going to recommend, but Bravo... is almost in its premier league like status right now so many of the shows are here and they have this thing called ultimate girls trip which is the 20th anniversary of housewives so they've got all the biggest players on holiday together and that's weekly so i have been watching that i'm not recommending it just putting that out there but much like having some vegetable on the side of a plate of junk food I've been reading Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts and I feel like hopefully, pray for me, hopefully that's undoing some of the damage I'm doing to my brain cells.
OenoneHOST
That first thing is so outside of my remit that I think I would just explode if I tried to engage, I think.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
Let's just ignore everything I said at the beginning.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
The Argonauts.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
It's my first Maggie Nelson book that I've read and I'm really enjoying it.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
And it's essentially a meditation on her going through pregnancy and motherhood as her partner transitions.
Ruchira SharmaHOST
It blends memoir with a lot of theory around motherhood, gender, sexuality, loads of things.
MattHOST
They're still putting stuff out there.
Nathan ShipleyGUEST
Maybe it was because Maggie Nelson came out as a Swifty and people were like...
Nathan ShipleyGUEST
Yeah, that does a lot to destroy your cloud.
speaker_0HOST
Almost worse than being in the IDF.
Don WilliamsHOST
She was 81.
Don WilliamsHOST
Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson.
Don WilliamsHOST
Dillard was best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her 1974 meditation on nature, faith, beauty, and cruelty, written while she was still in her 20s.
Don WilliamsHOST
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction the following year and was compared to the work of Henry David Thoreau, whom she had studied in graduate school.
Claudia RankineGUEST
And we did it in Marseille.
Claudia RankineGUEST
And It was a very transformative three days with Maison and Josh Kuhn and Maggie Nelson and Constant Debris and a lot more people.
Claudia RankineGUEST
So it just ended on Saturday.
Claudia RankineGUEST
Oh.
Ashton GustafsonHOST
I'm more interested in the questions and the mystery unfolds within that.
Brad Aaron ModlinGUEST
There's this tremendous book called Bluets by Maggie Nelson.
Brad Aaron ModlinGUEST
And B-L-U-E-T-S.
Brad Aaron ModlinGUEST
Even within the book, she says, I don't even know how to pronounce the title of my own book.