Struggling with Titles
Karl Ove Knausgaard has been making waves with his six-part book My Struggle. The popular series shares a title with another famous book, Mein Kampf, Hitler’s treatise written from his prison…
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On Writing the Personal Struggle
For me, the act of writing is all about getting rid of self-criticism, and at the same time I have an almost religious belief in literature. These two kingdoms are…
The Writer’s Writer
Karl Ove Knausgaard, the handsome Norwegian writer, is traveling through the U.S. giving talks and readings and interviews. It’s as good a time as any to start reading his 6-part…
The Personal Becomes Public
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s magnum-opus, My Struggle, is an unflinching and exhaustive chronicle of a modern life. Interviews with the Norwegian writer are equally as vulnerable and exacting: It is too late to…
Revisiting Childhood
Thomas Wolfe once wrote, “You can’t go home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory…