This is memoir by Maggie Nelson, who I’ve previously read her newer book The Argonauts. This book is from 2009. In this memoir, which is not at all structured like a traditional memoir, follow Nelson in the years after she’s published a poetry collection called Jane which is about the murder of her aunt, and included decolletage of her aunt’s diaries cut into various of the poems. There’s a moment where Nelson tells us how violating it feels to have someone read a diary when they’re living, but […]