Nuar Alsadir (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an American poet and psychoanalyst. She was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry. [1] Animal Joy, her nonfiction debut, was a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2022[2] and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022.[3]
Her work has appeared in 'The Paris Review,[4] The New York Times Magazine,[5] LitHub[6]The Yale Review.[7], and Granta.[8] She was interviewed by Cathy Park Hong in BOMB Magazine.[9]
She has also appeared as part of the peer advisory group on Couples Therapy (2019 TV series).
Works edit
- More Shadow Than Bird (Salt Publishing, 2012).
- Fourth Person Singular (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
- Animal Joy, (Graywolf Press/ FItzcarraldo Editions, 2022) ISBN 978-1-64445-093-2 [10][11][12]
References edit
- ^ "Nuar Alsadir". forwardartsfoundation.org.
- ^ "'Animal Joy' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022". Time. 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ "Best Books 2022: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ "Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter". 16 June 2022.
- ^ Alsadir, Nuar (17 November 2002). "LIVES; Invisible Woman". The New York Times.
- ^ "Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy". 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Nuar Alsadir: "We Are Our Choices"". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "Nuar Alsadir". Granta. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine | Nuar Alsadir Interviewed". BOMB Magazine. 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ "A book on laughter and how it brings out our most authentic selves". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir review – is laughter the best medicine?". the Guardian. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "Review | 'Animal Joy' is a necessary reminder of laughter's cathartic nature". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-02.