LA Review of Books Publishes Excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s Forthcoming Art of Cruelty July 8, 2011: Excerpt of the week? At least. The Los Angeles Review of Books has published a piece by poet, critic and CalArts professor Maggie Nelson from her forthcoming book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, out next week from W.W. Norton & Company. The excerpt elaborates on Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty, and looks at the avant-garde and all its [...] by Harriet Staff

Maggie Nelson Has 6 Nonfiction Books for You to Read May 26, 2011: Cast your eyes again to HTMLGIANT, where poet, memoirist, critic, and Bluet extraodinaire Maggie Nelson has selected six nonfiction books for recommended spring reading (or any season's reading, we'd imagine). Nelson's newest, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, is forthcoming from Norton in July (exciting news indeed). While Christian Hawkey's [...] by Harriet Staff

Pharmikon September 30, 2009: Just read Maggie Nelson’s Bluets which will soon be in a bookstore near you. It’s an uncategorizable piece of writing composed of numbered philosophical statements which consider the color blue, and so much else but in the aftermath of reading Maggie’s “bluets” the fascinating word Pharmikon remains in my mind. It means drug though [...] by Eileen Myles