![]() ![]() Her partner Harry tells her, "You've written about all the parts of your life except the queer part", so Nelson moves from the universal – love, bodies, parenthood – to explore her experience of heteronormativity, relationships and queerness. Her previous projects include a book about her murdered aunt ( Jane: A Murder) and a meditation on the colour blue ( Bluets), but The Argonauts is a different excavation of the personal. Like Solnit, she has created her own word for this oeuvre: autotheory, which is part philosophical manifesto, gender treatise, fragmented novel, memoir, love letter and art critique. As a nonfiction writer and poet, Nelson’s work is far from a singular entity. ![]() ![]() Nelson has consistently done this and, in her latest book, explores “the demand that anyone live a life that’s all one thing”. In the podcast, she argues that none of us exist just as selves – we spend time being other people as "watchers, listeners and readers". Solnit writes about place, politics and gender among other things, and describes her own work as "anti-memoir". ![]() In the same week I reread Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts I downloaded a Granta podcast with the American writer and activist Rebecca Solnit. ![]()
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