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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…

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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…

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Sex and the City: Lakshmi, October 13

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…