I won’t go into what the other ones were, but The Argonauts is a lot better than those. So, it was a tribe, but it also referred to a foundational metaphor in the book. it was the name of people, with a plural. But what I liked about this title was that A. You always run the risk of really underscoring one particular theme. When I’m not happy with any of the working titles I have, often I’ll re-read my book looking for a title within its pages that seems like it would work. This book had a lot of titles along the way. I’ve read those descriptions about the Argo many times over the last twenty years, so it wasn’t something I discovered while writing. I love Roland Barthes, and I’ve read a lot of him. Maggie Nelson: The book Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is a book I read a lot while writing this. Superstition Review: I want to ask you about the title, the idea of the Argo, that “its parts may be replaced over time but it is still called the Argo.” I’m wondering at what point in the process of writing you came across this idea, or did you have it already? When did the title start to emerge?
You can view the video of the interview here. This was the same reaction I had to reading The Argonauts, so I shouldn’t have expected anything different.” In this interview, Maggie discusses the role of other people in her writing, the need to make space, and what it means to burn out a problem. Every time I watched the recording while transcribing, I discovered some new train of thought I hadn’t sat with previously, and I would have to stop and take a note. For days after, pieces of our conversation were swimming around in my mind, resurfacing at unexpected moments. Of the process she said, “It was such an incredible privilege to interview Maggie Nelson.
This interview was conducted in person at the NonfictionNow conference in Flagstaff, Arizona by Interview Editor Leah Newsom.
“Writing as Performance,” an Interview with Maggie Nelson
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