It’s so great to do that, to go out and meet someone and experience something and then go back home and write about it. Yeah, I’ve really loved doing that stuff. But I think they are related somehow, the subjects, so maybe one day I can publish them if there is some interest for that.įor instance, that one on the brain surgeon - I don’t know what you want to call it - but it was fantastic. So basically, all of those articles are like books from the beginning.
When I do the stuff for The New York Times, I always write very long, around a hundred pages, and then we, the editor, Luke Mitchell and myself, take it down to the article size. The last article I did, about Anselm Kiefer, is going to be a book in itself, published in Norway in January. They are more like articles than essays, so they are a bit different from the other texts. … And what happened to the ones that you wrote for The New York Times, for example? And the book you got, In the Land of the Cyclops, is a collection from both of them.įrom both of them. And then there was a second that was published a few years ago. Yeah, so, the first volume, my first collection of essays was published after My Struggle. Has the book already been collected and published in Norway? And as you mentioned in an email, you wrote these quite a while ago. There are a million ways to talk about a book, you know? It was an honor to do it with Maggie Nelson. That’s the thing with events and interviews in general, I guess, it is never just about questions and answers, but also about the dynamic between the two persons, and that is always unpredictable. I do admire Maggie Nelson’s writing a lot, and it was a difficult book that we were going to talk about, but she was great and it went well. KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: Was that Maggie Nelson? Knausgaard reviewed the complete transcript and expanded, clarified, or developed a few replies.īOB BLAISDELL: I saw you speak in Brooklyn a couple of years ago, across from the Brooklyn Public Library in a synagogue. I have deleted only our exchanges where technical glitches required me or him to repeat ourselves or where I indulged myself in literary tangents that received little response. We spoke for a little more than an hour on Zoom - Knausgaard was in London, I was in New York - on November 11. HAVING RECEIVED an advance copy of In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays, I wrote Knausgaard’s American publisher, Archipelago, to request an interview with my favorite living author.
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