how to win the lottery s17e8 – i love dick by chris kraus
our 1990s season continues with i love dick by chris kraus and a slew of 1997 facts, including lots of titanic talk. the big question, right off the bat: how did they make this a tv series? (shreds plans to investigate.) we discuss the text’s format and two (very different) halves, the reference to kathy acker, and the inherent sadness and embarrassment in this novel and in sylvere leaving her. we attempt to refilter chris’s obsession through a modern lens, and we also try to contextualize the feminism of the text. what is chris kraus’s impression of this world? it’s unclear, which we struggle with. we hear from the egg and read youtube comments we missed.
reading list for season seventeen
vineland by thomas pynchon
mao ii by don delillo
all the pretty horses by cormac mccarthy
trainspotting by irvine welsh
notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin
sabbath’s theater by philip roth
the atlas by william t. vollmann
i love dick by chris kraus
the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver
from hell by alan moore
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