For 12 years she taught in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in fall 2017 she will join the faculty of USC. An excellent way to learn more about overcoming the difficulties of being both gay and Muslim and how important religious stories can be to help understand complex issues. in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has taught literature, writing, art, criticism and theory at the New School, Pratt Institute, and Wesleyan University. 4/5: This is a poignant memoir recounting a young gay womans coming of age and her exploration of stories in the Koran as they relate to her life experiences. Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising. She writes frequently on art, including recent catalogue essays on Carolee Schneemann and Matthew Barney. Discover and share books you love on Goodreads. She has also 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. 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).

Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011 a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009 named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007 reissued by Graywolf, 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007).

Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization.

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