Knausgaard Debarks for a New Frontier: Genre Fiction

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( Fall Preview 2021 [Planet Knausgaard]( Norway’s most famous self-exile debarks for a new frontier: genre fiction. Photo: Ana Cuba for New York Magazine Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman writer in the world available to admire, but you won’t shut up about a tall, handsome Nordic-dad dude who spends five pages explaining how to turn on a stove? Guilty. The stereotype of the Knausgaard fan is of a thwarted literary man eager to tell you about his own idea for a systems novel, but there are many of us out there who don’t fit that description and are obsessed — to the exasperation of our loved ones — with a writer best known for an epic six-volume work called [My Struggle]( (yes, the same title as Hitler’s memoir; yes, it’s intentional). In private, we indulge our vice by spending hours analyzing every little aspect of his character, speculating on what he meant by this or that section, on whether he really is as good a writer as we think he is, especially when there’s so much opinion to the contrary. I’ve gone on a Knausgaard bender with a young gay Black man and an Australian grandmother — together. I’ve encountered Knausgaard obsessives who work for the government. In Hollywood. I’ve met them at a queer separatist compound. [Read The Story »]( The Latest TV Recaps • [90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Season Premiere:](90 Day’s Best Spinoff Is Back • [Bachelor in Paradise:]( Cake Wars • [Only Murders in the Building Season Premiere:]( What Is It About You? • [Only Murders in the Building:]( Every Person Is a Mystery • [Only Murders in the Building:]( Make a Splash [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Party Girl’s Revenge Marlowe Granados’s debut novel, Happy Hour, is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke.]( [The Genre of the Summer Is Resort Horror The premise of a luxury vacation gone wrong is an ideal match for the Hot Vaxxed Summer that wasn’t.]( [Drew Tarver Knows The Other Two Is Inherently a Drama, With Feet Jokes Things are looking up for Cary Dubek in season two. Sort of.]( [What Makes Cat Power’s ‘Manhattan’ a Classic NYC Anthem Most songs about New York are pop songs, as the singer’s 2012 track perfectly exemplifies.]( [Ranking PBS’s Wicked in Concert Moments by Sheer Bafflement This one’s not for entry-level Ozians.]( [The Brand New Cherry Flavor Creators Answer All Your Cat-Vomiting Questions “For a show like this, finding the right idea is kind of like defining pornography: You know it when you see it.”]( [A Guide to WOW Presents Plus, the Best Streaming Service for Drag Race Fans The scrappy streaming service unites nearly all of RuPaul’s empire in one convenient home.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Devour pop culture with us: [Subscribe to Vulture now for unlimited access.]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Courtesy of Publisher • [40 books we can’t wait to read this fall,]( including from Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Michaela Coel, and more. [Read more from Vulture]( If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [Read Like the Wind](: Book recommendations and literary mischief by Molly Young, sent the first Tuesday of every month. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved