Artless
  • Published: 21 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781635901900
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $38.00

Artless

Stories 2019-2023

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A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.

Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless captures the media landscape lived and generated in New York during the past half decade. Since the 2016 publication of her debut novel Surveys, Stagg has positioned herself as an in-demand expert on—and critic of—the psychic experience of self-mythology within the cruelly optimistic metaverse of infinite branding. Part voyeur and part participant, Stagg continues her exploration of the branded identity and its elusive, bottomless desire for authenticity.
  • Published: 21 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781635901900
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Artless

"Natasha Stagg's voice is a dry, all-seeing third eye, volleying from a helicopter view of the city to a street-level perspective offering
skilled and brutally honest commentary."
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue

"With her deadpan wit and the aloofness of her voice, Natasha Stagg is our most trusted reporter on this era. Like the Beat poets and Joan Didion, Stagg has a keen eye on her contemporaries, approaching them with skepticism but still wanting to be invited to the party and take part in the perks. Stagg mimics the general apathy of late capitalism, simultaneously aligning herself with her peers and distancing herself from them."
—Grace Hadland, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Stagg serves as both participant and observer; a bit like Andy Warhol’s diaries if they were written by a millennial, populated by shiny happy people until an unflattering zoom reveals the rot festering inside. "
—Isabel Slone, Hazlitt