2015-2016 Writers at Rutgers Reading Series
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 08:00pm
Where: Rutgers Student Center Mutipurpose Room - 126 College Avenue
Category: 2015-2016 Writers at Rutgers Reading Series
Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009, named one of Bookforum's top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions(U of Iowa Press, 2007); her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir). Since 2005 she has been on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She lives in Los Angeles.
