Chris Kraus, Shiela Heti, Maggie Nelson, who else?
March 14, 2016 12:50 PM Subscribe
I've recently read (and really enjoyed) 'I Love Dick', 'How Should A Person Be' and 'The Argonauts'. Can anyone recommend any more books along the lines of these three? I guess I'd consider the key features of the 'genre' to be real names, diversions into critical theory, female author-protagonist.
It may not tick all of the boxes you listed but I'm quite sure you would enjoy the works of Miranda July.
posted by telegraph at 1:26 PM on March 14, 2016
posted by telegraph at 1:26 PM on March 14, 2016
Jenny Offill's Dept of Speculation is very good.
posted by otio at 2:19 PM on March 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by otio at 2:19 PM on March 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
N'thing The Folded Clock, so so great. You may also like Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness. Have you read Anne Carson? The Glass Essay is unreal.
In a recent attempt to hunt down more works like this myself, I hit on this wikipedia entry for "lyric essay", and I think possibly a lot of what you enjoyed about Kraus, Nelson & Heiti can be found within the lyric essay sub-genre.
posted by hollypolly at 2:56 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
In a recent attempt to hunt down more works like this myself, I hit on this wikipedia entry for "lyric essay", and I think possibly a lot of what you enjoyed about Kraus, Nelson & Heiti can be found within the lyric essay sub-genre.
posted by hollypolly at 2:56 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Renata Adler - Speedboat, living & writing in 1970s New York.
posted by betweenthebars at 3:35 PM on March 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by betweenthebars at 3:35 PM on March 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
Best answer: LITERALLY you are describing every book published by Emily Books. Subscribe! Collect them all.
Also Mary Gaitskill, maybe Helen Oyeyemi, Porochista Khakpour or Joy Williams, maybe Rivka Galchen, I also hope of course their mothers Octavia Butler and Grace Paley the great. Oh you might also like a book Chris Kraus published called Surveys.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:39 PM on March 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
Also Mary Gaitskill, maybe Helen Oyeyemi, Porochista Khakpour or Joy Williams, maybe Rivka Galchen, I also hope of course their mothers Octavia Butler and Grace Paley the great. Oh you might also like a book Chris Kraus published called Surveys.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:39 PM on March 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
Oh on the slightly absurdist side of what you like I adore Amanda Filipacchi.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:40 PM on March 14, 2016
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:40 PM on March 14, 2016
Best answer: Cannot second enough RJ Reynolds' recommendation of Emily Books, for whom those three authors are lodestones--I think you would especially like King Kong Theory, I'm Trying To Reach You, and The Buddhist.
The Folded Clocks is lighter in weight but one of my favorites; I also recommend Valeria Luiselli and (especially the most recent collection, Can't and Won't by) Lydia Davis. My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe.
posted by raisindebt at 5:11 AM on March 15, 2016
The Folded Clocks is lighter in weight but one of my favorites; I also recommend Valeria Luiselli and (especially the most recent collection, Can't and Won't by) Lydia Davis. My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe.
posted by raisindebt at 5:11 AM on March 15, 2016
Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist. She has an amazing essay on competative Scrabble (which she plays).
posted by Brittanie at 6:10 AM on March 15, 2016
posted by Brittanie at 6:10 AM on March 15, 2016
And my reading list grows ever longer. Thanks for the question, as well as the answerers.
posted by black_lizard at 11:32 AM on March 15, 2016
posted by black_lizard at 11:32 AM on March 15, 2016
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