Coming to America

jessige Mar 15, 2015

In which Karl Ove Knausgaard’s NYT series about travelling to the United States visits Duluth, Superior and more.

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bslater17 on March 16, 2015 at 7:50 am

I’m eager to read this; enjoying Karl Ove’s “My Struggle” very much.

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bslater17 on March 17, 2015 at 8:01 am

The thing about Karl Ove is that in an age of the memoir and everyone with a blog using the first-person construct in their writing, he’s one of the few with craft and skill enough to rise above the question, “Why am I giving two s***s about what this person has to say?” I find most people who exclusively use the “I” do so as a Facebook, as a way to inform us about how unique they think they are. It becomes tedious and vain. Karl Ove uses it in an unvarnished way to illustrate how truly alike he is with the rest of us.

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bluenewt on March 17, 2015 at 7:36 pm

I am really enjoying his Twitter feed since he missed his flight to Oslo and got stuck in Minneapolis.

This, for example:

The @Americinn waffle iron is on a digital timer. In the Land of Individualism, one may not choose a browner breakfast.

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