In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Kim Adrian¿is a Boston-based creative writer and a visiting lecturer of nonfiction writing at Brown University.¿She is the author of¿Sock, part of the Object Lesson series, and the forthcoming memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet (Nebraska, 2018). Adrian is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship, a PEN/New England Discovery Award, and an artist’s grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Brenda Miller directs the MFA in Cre...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Homely, ubiquitous, simple: the sock is such an everyday part of our lives, we tend to overlook its importance--unless there's a problem. Without socks, our feet are vulnerable to cold, infection, and discomfort. Put on a pair that's too thin, too thick, too itchy, holey, or damp and suddenly socks are maddeningly preoccupying. At their mo...