Constructing a Nervous System

- Reviews -

Electric [Jefferson] takes vital risks, tosses away rungs of the ladder as it climbs, and offers an indispensable, rollicking account of the enchantments, pleasures, costs, and complexities of "imagin[ing] and interpret[ing] what had not imagined you -- Maggie Nelson * author of The Argonauts * Margo Jefferson has created a startling and digressive form of auto-analysis. . . an intimate view of the aesthetic and political landscape of American culture and the secrets, longing, withholding and disavowal necessary to imagine oneself inside it and ward off its damage -- Saidiya Hartman * author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments * She knows everything and has felt it all deeply. If you want to know who we are and where we' ve been, read Margo Jefferson -- Edmund White * author of A Previous Life * Margo Jefferson is one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism. Her latest Constructing a Nervous System is especially alive is both spiky and supple; jagged -- Cathy Park Hong * New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings * This is one of the most imaginative-and therefore moving-memoirs I have ever read -- Vivian Gornick * author of Fierce Attachments * Jefferson is as precise and sensitive as ever, nonpareil in her scope and ability to synthesize the circus of traditions, arcs, and performances that make up a life -- Most Anticipated Books of 2022 * Vulture * This is a moving portrait of the life of a brilliant African American woman' s mind. Margo Jefferson is so real, her sensibility so literary, her learning such a joy. The gifts of reading her are many -- Darryl Pickney * author of Sold and Gone * A tour-de-force of personal narrative -- Keziah Weir * Vanity Fair *

- Author Bio -

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson was a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York magazine and New Republic. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of Negroland - shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award - and On Michael Jackson.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781783785544
Published:	5 May 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Granta Books
Publisher:	Granta Books
Format:	Hardback
Height:	216mm
Width:	138mm
Pages:	208

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