Karl Ove Knausgaard interview with Scott Esposito
Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses the My Struggle series with Scott Esposito for Tin House. (See also: Esposito's article on My Struggle for SFGATE here) From Mein Kampf to Min Kamp: A Conversation with Scott Esposito The author and poet Paul Zweig once wrote that “it is
Line wrapped around the block for Karl Ove Knausgaard & Zadie Smith
In case you missed the discussion between Karl Ove Knausgaard & Zadie Smith this week at McNally Jackson Books, check out the New York Times' write-up of the amazing event here.
Volume Three of My Struggle reviewed in The LA Times
L.A. Times reviewer, David L. Ulin, breaks down what makes Karl Ove's Knausgaard's ordinary life so "epic". Read the full article here.
"The most exciting author in the world comes to America" – The Week
RE In search of Karl Ove Knausgaard by Ryu Spaeth In the past year and a half, the Norwegian novelist has evolved from a mere literary darling to a full-blown global phenomenon, appearing in the garish spotlight of major magazines and popular entertainment blogs like a
NY Times blogs on Knausgaard’s Brooklyn event
Karl Ove Knausgaard Brings His Struggle to Brooklyn by John Williams for Artsbeat: The New York Times blog About 30 minutes before the start of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s event at the relatively small and narrow Community Bookstore in Park Slope on Wednesday, people
Ebony magazine puts Return to My Native Land on this week’s "Black Lit Roundup"
This month's edition of Ebony calls Archipelago's new release of Aimé Césaire's Return to My Native Land (translation by John Berger and Anna Bostock) "amazing"!
Speakeasy profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard for the start of his US Book Tour
Erich Schwartzel from the Speakeasy blog for The Wall Street Journal celebrates the start of Karl Ove Knausgaard's US Book Tour with this profile on the "Norwegian literary sensation." Read the full article here.
Out Loud discusses "The Knausgaard Phenomenon"
Check out this week's Out Loud podcast from The New Yorker profiling Knausgaard's My Struggle series! Sasha Weiss (literary editor of newyorker.com), Cressida Leyshon (The New Yorker deputy fiction editor), and Joshua Rothman (reviewer for Page-Turner) discuss "the reaction to Knausgaard in
Review: New York Magazine on My Struggle 3
"Why One Norwegian Author’s 6-Volume, 3,600-Page Book Is on the Verge of Breaking Out in America" by Boris Kachka On New Year’s Eve, 1984, on a snowbound street in southern Norway, a teenager named Karl Ove Knausgaard plotted to smuggle beer
Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard in Bookforum
Meghan O'Rourke reviews the "master of banality": My Struggle,the celebrated six-volume novel (or memoir) by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, is—like nearly all grand endeavors—one of those books that shouldn’t work, but somehow does. He finished the project in 2009