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Books
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (W.W. Norton, 2015)
“MacLaughlin…is a master writer, with the rare combination of acute observation and astute word choice that characterizes writers like Annie Dillard or Joan Didion.” -Rebecca Steinitz, Boston Globe A finalist for the New England Book Award Buy it HERE or HERE or HERE Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (FSG Originals, 2019) "Vital, vivid, and angry." -Kirkus, starred review A finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award Buy it HERE or HERE or HERE Summer Solstice: An Essay (Black Sparrow, 2020) “MacLaughlin’s four-part lyric essay…ultimately renders the season a kind of wildly faceted mirror for both life and death, procreation and decay. And yet the fun stuff, MacLaughlin reminds us on every page, lies between such extremes.” -Kim Adrian, The Rumpus Buy it HERE or HERE or HERE Winter Solstice: An Essay (Black Sparrow, November, 2023) “Nina MacLaughlin returns to celebrate the winter solstice, and delivers a most sensual hymn and harbor for the human ability to feel our way through the darkness towards wise, unexpected connections. This ethereal collection offers us a candle at night—it’s an astonishing gift.” -Aimee Nezhukumatathil Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award Buy it HERE or HERE or HERE Selected WritingThe Paris Review Daily
Novemberance: A series of essays on the month of November November, 2017 The Senses of Dawn: A series of essays on what dawn feels like November, 2018 Sky Gazing: A series of essays on the sky July, 2020 Winter Solstice: A series of essays on the shortest day of the year December, 2020 The Moon in Full: A series of 12 essays on the Moon April, 2021-March, 2022 n+1 Serra's Verbs April, 2022 Literary Hub On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid The Los Angeles Review of Books In Free Fall: Anne Carson’s Float and Mary Ruefle’s My Private Property Recapturing the World with Karl Ove Knausgaard American Short Fiction Life on Land The Boston Globe Everything Must Go: Recalling a Connection with Masse Hardware One Book Group, One Book, 18 Years: The Thirsty Scholars read Finnegans Wake What Is an Indian: A review of There There by Tommy Orange |