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Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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The Importance of Anonymity in Writing

Maggie Wasserstrom: I've been following a lot of things that have been happening with you from afar. For so long in your work you have actually theorized anonymity and knownness, like the process of people getting to know something that isn't you. What is it when you're alone? She says someplace in there is this desire to sort of vanish into your own existence. "I think about both of us have these lost fathers in sort of weird ways young"

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