Portland, OR Dear all, Before I get to Hitler, I want to talk about feelings—my own, stirred by one Karl Ove Knausgaard. I wrote another letter before I wrote this…
Archive for October, 2018

My Struggle , vol. 6: Katherine Hill, October 26
October 26, 2018 Brooklyn, NY Dear Each and Every One of You, Several of you have heard this already, out loud, at our exhilarating Slow Burn panel at ASAP/10 in…

Sex and the City: Andrea, October 26
Andrea Long Chu

My Struggle , vol. 6: Rachel Greenwald Smith, October 23
St. Louis, MO Dear Slow Burners, As I slowly make my way through Book 6, I keep thinking about this one moment in Charlie Rose’s famous interview with David Foster…

Sex and the City: Audrey Wollen, October 22 (guest post)
Audrey Wollen

“Honor the Syntax”: an Interview with Lydia Davis
Lola Boorman

My Struggle , vol. 6: Diana, October 15
Brooklyn, NY Dears, If, having opened a long book by a novelist you despise in preparation for an unpaid task, you find yourself too unwilling to let him tell you…

Sex and the City: Lakshmi, October 13
Lakshmi Padmanabhan

My Struggle , vol. 6: Emily Tamkin, October 10
Dear friends, Washington, DC Before sitting down to write this letter, I went and looked up the blog post I wrote after I finished Book 1 of My Struggle. I…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Cecily, October 9
Knausgaard: Mommy Blogger Princeton, NJ I’m writing this post from the café within the Princeton Public Library, where, at the table across from mine, a dad is doing a valiant…