In conversation with her former professor, the Argonauts author says she doesn’t like the way her work gets flattened into ‘thesis-like statements’
Though there are many brilliant lines in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, said critic Wayne Koestenbaum, this one especially jumped out at him: “You’re a great student because you don’t have any baggage, a teacher once told me, at which point the subterfuge of my life felt complete.”
“That was me, wasn’t it?” Koestenbaum asked Nelson on Wednesday night, speaking at the New York Public Library. “Ever since I read the book in pre-galley I thought: ‘Wow, why did I say that, what did I mean?’”
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