Audrey Wollen
Archive for 2018
“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…
My Struggle , vol. 6: Stephanie, October 5
Cambridge, MA Dear friends, When Dan asked me if I wanted to write about My Struggle for Slow Burn, I told him I was only interested in writing about “the…
My Struggle , vol. 6: Dan, September 28
Denton, TX Dear friends, I think Book 6 is something new. My guiding theory of My Struggle so far was that Knausgaard’s technique of dilation, his extended description of every…
My Struggle , vol. 6: Omari, September 25
Salem, OR Dear all, Before we get to Hitler, I want to talk about literary theory. In my last letter to you, I was just beginning a new life on…