NM72 | Natasha Stagg on Artless: Stories 2019-2023

Few if any are better, more observant chroniclers of post-millennial, culture-sector life than the NYC-based author Natasha Stagg. On this episode, she joins New Models to discuss her new book of collected writing, Artless: Stories 2019-2023, which leads readers through the rubble of early 21st-century creative industries and the new types of spaces and subjects emergent in their wake. Artless follows Stagg’s 2019 book Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 and her 2016 novel, Surveys (all Semiotext[e]).“What I’ve been thinking about, anyway, is work and what that has become, for everyone. What it was like, when it was easier, to separate jobs from opportunity, opportunity from experience. I’m thinking about writing as work and as entertainment and as a tool or a calling card. I write a lot of emails. I bet I have written hundreds of millions of emails. I would rather write books, but those are far less in demand.” — Natasha Stagg, excerpt from the foreword to Artless: Stories 2019-2023For more: Subscribe to Natasha's Substack, Selling OutLaunch of Artless: Stories 2019 - 2023 (in convo w/ Miranda July), Wednesday, October 25th, 7PM @ McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St, NYC (SOLD OUT)Natasha Stagg Presents @ Metrograph (NYC, Saturday, October 28th, 2:45PM (New York, New York) and 5PM (Welcome to the Dollhouse), book signing in betweenNatasha Stagg and Sasha Frere-Jones, Thursday November 2, 7PM @ Mast Books, 72 Avenue A, NYC