Her Struggle

After I recommended My Struggle to a friend, she texted, “What if a woman wrote it?” I wrote back, “or an American?” and I began to wonder what would happen if the literary sensation were written not by the handsome Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard but by Carla Olivia Krauss of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Would Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, still have declared in the New York Times book review that it “solved a big problem of the cotemporary novel?” Would Lorin Stein of the Paris Review even have opened it? Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]

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