Welcome to Literary Friction on NTS. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host, Octavia Bright.

Hello, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. And we have a really exciting guest today, don't we?

Super exciting. Today we are interviewing Chris Krauss, who is one of my literary heroes. I was unbelievably beside myself to meet her.

She's the author of the novel I Love Dick, which is a classic of feminist literature.

You would be surprised to him.

First published by Semiotext in the United States in 1997, but published for the first time in the UK just now, which is why.

There's all the hype around it.

It's about a woman who makes video art named Chris Krause and her obsession with Dick, an academic, and her husband's involvement in her desire for this man. And it's fabulous. And she's since written three other novels, most recently Summer of Hate. And she's also a publisher with semi- Text, a teacher, and a cultural critic. And she was

in London for the promotional staff for I Love Dick, and we were lucky enough to collar her

for a morning of her time. Yeah, we had quite a lot of fun with her. We also walked her to the

tube afterwards. Like super fan girls. Couldn't let go. Yeah. In I Love Dick, Chris writes a story about her infatuation with Dick called Abstract Romanticism,

and that's what we're calling our show today.

Love, you can argue, always involves some sort of objectification,

and books have been a rich medium through which to explore the abstractions of desire.

After our interview, we'll be talking aboutions of desire. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

After our interview, we'll be talking about objects of desire and literature from Romeo and Juliet to love in the time of colora to my personal favorite, 50 Shades of Gray.

Again.

Book again.

I know.

Sorry, I just had to include it.

We'll also be giving all the usual book recommendations.

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