by Margo Jefferson
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From “one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism” (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir “as electric as the title suggests” (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom).
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics.
Interview with the Author
Free Library of Philadelphia
Margo Jefferson | Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir
5/4/22 53 min
Poured Over
Margo Jefferson on CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM
4/23/22 44 min
London Review Bookshop Podcast
Margo Jefferson & Colin Grant: Constructing a Nervous System
7/27/22 63 min
LA Review of Books
Margo Jefferson’s “Constructing a Nervous System”
4/29/22 48 min
Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books, and Paris
On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
4/27/22 51 min
Thresholds
Margo Jefferson
1/27/21 47 min
Fully Booked
Margo Jefferson
5/10/22 42 min