Meeting Dates:
7/25, 8/15, 9/5
In Person at The Center for Fiction

Session I: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Session II: The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Session III: I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

We’ll revisit the last decade of the 20th century in the company of three strange, erudite, and wildly entertaining novels. We’ll trace how our three irrepressibly original narrators mine boredom and obsession in feminist acts of becoming themselves, chronicling messy processes of self-realization with deadpan humor. We’ll also examine how these books braid elements of autobiography, epistolary novels, Künstlerroman, and Bildungsroman with the novel of ideas, creating at once hyper-specific and strikingly contemporary meditations on culture, art, language, and feminism.