Our Struggle
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 72 ratingsOur Struggle is a podcast about the life and struggle of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Wagner By The Park (with special guest Greg Jackson )
November 18, 2023 23:41 - 3 hours - 181 MBIt's a repulsively glorious fall day in Brooklyn. Seeking respite from his upstate rustication, Greg Jackson comes to the city to ask us, "Who are you guys?" In trying to answer him, we discuss Conrad, infantile ejaculation, polite literary readings, and nested storytelling. We take frequent breaks. Drew becomes rather maudlin. Lauren eats Port Salut and tries not to talk about auto-fiction. Greg gives us a reading of some of his greatest hits. His prose is metaphysically propulsive, humanel...
About A Guy, With Some Guys (Featuring Willy Staley, Dean Kissick, and Sam Kriss)
November 18, 2023 20:41 - 2 hours - 155 MBWe're so back, as they say, and we've recruited some struggle favorites to join us for a most unseemly return. We gather in Park Slope with 3 microphones, 4 dudes, and 1 Lauren. We talk about the text, for once. We talk about sojourns abroad and encounters with Kentuckian gastronomy. We perform close readings then forget our reading entirely. We sing at the end, too, which you'll hear if you make it all the way there. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/o...
P***Y For the Meter With Max Lawton
April 29, 2023 22:16 - 2 hours - 113 MBDrew finally lifts his editing embargo and the show recently described as "your boyfriend's favorite podcast" returns with a special guest-- the esteemed, humble, and oddly jacked translator Max Lawton. We talk about...what the hell did we talk about? Many arcane Russian writers we don't know about, non-binary bombs, a bizarre fascistic musical (also Russian), Philip Roth (I think), Stephen King, tuna melts. Tune in and remember with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.sp...
White Chocolate Guys (ft. Sam Kriss)
January 22, 2023 21:40 - 2 hours - 120 MBIn this episode with cult fave 6'4" writer SAM KRISS, all motifs are on the table - literally. Drew has been heroically managing dry January by replacing alcohol with weird food and on the Wednesday evening we gathered at the Park Slope Manse, he presented Sam and Lauren with the most deranged assortment of snacks imaginable. As we loudly munched our way through the spread (to the great delight of audiophile listeners, we're sure), the madness of the snacks began to infect us, resulting in f...
No One’s Beautiful and We’re All Gonna Die W/Alex Dimitrov
November 23, 2022 16:11 - 1 hour - 110 MBLove is boring and breakups are banal. Flight attendants are gay and have extraordinarily high body counts. We’re calling for a New Sensualism! Have you read The Line of Beauty? Drew’s getting into astrology and martinis, Lauren’s still running the show. Alex Dimitrov is, in fact, a respected poet–published in The New Yorker, no less. He likes getting his haircut once a week, to feel in control. He likes keeping a diary, he likes the camaraderie of a handjob. Lauren’s been reading a lot abou...
Well, There You Have It (ft. Andrew Martin)
September 11, 2022 20:29 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBWe're back! Really! Having revived ourselves with grapefruit Spindrift and coffee following our lackluster 2nd anniversary show, we invited Andrew 'actually Armenian' Martin, author of the novel Early Work and the short story collection Cool for America, to join us at Lauren's Park Slope manse for a rollicking discussion of Book 2's famous face-slashing section! Andrew did not disappoint: with typical Armenian wit and candor, he helped us to pick apart the drunken series of events leading to...
Vagaries and Vicissitudes: A 2nd Anniversary Call-in Special
August 21, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBAs that haunting summer feeling takes hold, Lauren and Drew languidly reflect on another year of podcasting and readerly fellowship. Along the way they read some KOK and respond to calls from the usual band of dilettantes, devotees, and detractors. A goblin-schnozzed Czech puppet called Mickey makes a special appearance as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Colonel Mustard with the Gerbil (ft. Jon Lindsey)
August 01, 2022 15:33 - 53 minutes - 46.1 MBGood news: it's our first in-person recording in half a year. Bad news (a la Teddy St. Aubyn): Audio interface ran out of battery so it cuts off sorry Buy Jon's book: Body High We'll get back to Karl Ove soon we promise. Have brain damage? Consider donating to our Patreon: patreon.com/ourstruggle --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Bildongsroman (ft. Gary Shteyngart)
July 12, 2022 15:39 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBWe're back! We're talkin schlong! We're on Patreon, finally! It's season 4....after taking a month and half off from the show to work on their tans, Lauren and Drew return, joined, this time, by the beloved novelist Gary Shteyngart, zooming in from his Rolex-stuffed country estate in the Hudson Valley. Knowing that many of our listeners are fans of Gary's work for its wit, humor and aching portrayals of soviet jewish anxiety (cosplaying a lit critic today lol), we decided to engage Gary exc...
Smashing Life (ft. Peter C. Baker)
May 25, 2022 15:46 - 2 hours - 102 MB***TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR OUR 6/2 LIVE SHOW! EVENTBRITE LINK HERE*** -KGB is a very small venue and we've already sold 60% of the tickets so if you want to see our first and likely last ever live show, do buy your ticket ASAP! -Friends of the show Christian Lorentzen and Dean Kissick are confirmed as guests. And there will probably be 1 to 2 additional mystery guests ;) ------------------------------------ WE'RE BACK! And this time joined by Peter C. Baker, another novelist dad wh...
Cafe Society (ft. Felix Biederman)
May 11, 2022 14:03 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBWe're back! And joined by Felix Biederman, a promising young podcaster recently arrived in Los Angeles whom we condescended to let on the show. Although by no means a "bookhead" -- to appropriate his charming coinage -- Felix is a longtime fan of Karl Ove Knausgaard. The Norwegian author became a source of strength for Felix when he first encountered the Struggle books in 2017 amidst an increasingly cloying digital media landscape. With startling lucidity, Felix articulates how Knasugaard, w...
BONUS EP: The Northman (ft. Alec Niedenthal)
April 28, 2022 14:59 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBA lot of people when they realize that Drew is not on this episode are going to say I betrayed him but what you need to know is that we're actually POLY now and I can podcast with any man I choose. Also Drew was supposed to show up to this recording and didn't. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN WITHOUT DREW! My good friend Alec Niedenthal and I went to see The Northman at Nitehawk (prospect park location), sampled a viking burger (which we review in this episode), and podded about the experience back at...
Rhythm Time (ft. James Griffiths)
April 26, 2022 13:34 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBFinally! It's Rhythm Time! To discuss one of the most notorious and worst written passages of Book 2, we invited back our homie James Griffiths, the Welsh warrior and three-time struggle King, who told us that these pages made him "want to get a vasectomy." Also in this episode: A "lover's quarrel" between Lauren and Drew (saga to be cont.); we uncover the true meaning of Nico's 'These Days'; James and Drew get vulnerable about their hair loss journeys; Lauren reports on her experience of a...
Everything is Great (ft. Sheila Heti)
April 04, 2022 13:52 - 2 hours - 87.8 MBWe're still alive! And at the incessant nagging of the Our Struggle Office of Diversity and Inclusion, joined by Canadian woman writer Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood, and the newly out PURE COLOUR (note the canadian spelling). This was a great episode - we didn't talk about Knausgaard so much (although Sheila had a good story about hanging with the man at an Australian continental breakfast), or even Craft (although there was some craft chat), but you all know the...
Conception (ft. Andrew Lipstein)
March 15, 2022 16:08 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBWelcome back! This is a classic struggle, in which we were joined by our new friend, yet another Jewish writer named Andrew. You can buy his (Andrew Lipstein's) novel LAST RESORT out now. It's getting good reviews. Lauren's half awake notes: 0:00 – marc maron-style appeal to buy mug 3:30 - geriatric pregnancy, half of face paralyzed, run into a pole 15:47 – knausgaard primal experience. Hitler section. 23:30 - Knaus feels childrearing not meaningful, longing to be somewhere else 34:47 ...
Icky Modernism (ft. Matthew Gasda and Christian Lorentzen)
March 03, 2022 00:51 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBThursday night, a living room in upper Manhattan. Two podcasters - a wayward English teacher (Andrew Ohringer) and a sardonic nanny (Lauren Teixeira) -- have invited their friend, a young playwright recently arrived from Flatbush (Matthew Gasda), onto their show to discuss his new underground hit play "Dimes Square," a razor-sharp send-up of contemporary New York bohemian life. The playwright is on this evening accompanied by two of his actors: his muse (Cassidy O'Grady) and a volatile moonl...
Love Qua Love (ft. Oded Even Or and Krithika Varagur)
February 14, 2022 17:26 - 2 hours - 145 MBIn which we discuss Mating (Norman Rush's luminous 1991 novel), and mating. Happy Valentine's Day PS. Please buy our mug --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Clown Hour
January 31, 2022 01:01 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBAlright folks - we finally got equipment for IRL recording but the catch is, we did too much IRL hanging out this weekend so by the time we figured out the equipment we were out of things to say. I mean there's some good stuff in here but shouldn't be any kind of priority unless you're some kind of freak who's desperate to hear the EXQUISITE TIMBRE of our voices (Mason's on this too and he has the best vox of all). Just....focus on the sound, don't listen to what we're actually saying, it's ...
High Trauma Bottom (ft. Will Self)
January 18, 2022 15:09 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBWE'RE BACK! In the Our Struggle Pod season 3 premiere, L&D are joined by the author, critic, panelist, flaneur, enfant terrible and Ratatouille character inspiration, the giant (confirmed 6'5") of British letters, Mr Will Self. In this barn burner of an episode, Will talked to us about why he has no time for his fellow towering autofictionist Karl Ove Knausgaard (Will has recently come out with a memoir, titled, perversely, Will, rather than Self). But we also talked about a litany of other,...
I've Lost a Lot of Girls to Christmas
December 23, 2021 00:36 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBOriginal tune by Drew Ohringer, with some Zombies at the end --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Fanny and Alexander and Karl Ove (Xmas special)
December 20, 2021 18:23 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBTHIS HOLIDAY SEASON, HELP US WORSHIP MAMMON! Link to store ---- In this end of the year Christmas special, our two Hebraic hosts convene to discuss the Yuletide-set Part One of Ingmar Bergman's 1983 masterpiece, Fanny and Alexander. What resonances does this warm, nostalgic account of a Swedish boy's fantasy life have with our Jesus in the sea seeing Norwegian? How does the line between fantasy and reality, onstage and offstage blur for this theatrical bohemian family? What, in fact, were ...
Free Associating at the Dog Park (ft. Kyle Chayka)
December 13, 2021 16:03 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBHe was late; he always is. - Kyle C. doesn't seem too put off my his riff about misogyny in the kitchen, at least. - My Struggle, minimalist or maximalist? Is all autofiction minimalist? Is it funny to call her "Rachel Cuck"? A lot of questions, not so many answers. - Vanja puts on her golden shoes and goes to Stella's birthday party. Vanja shows off her shoes to the room of children. No one notices. They're busy riding the train to Moscow. - Small bark in the dog park. I mean small...
Claus Explains It All (ft. Claus Andersen)
December 06, 2021 16:12 - 2 hours - 108 MBWE'RE BACK! After a long illness, Drew returns to the zoom stage and helps Lauren to heartily welcome certified Knausgaard expert Professor Claus Andersen to the pod for an extremely, almost disconcertingly, on-topic episode. itemization: 0:00 - molasses cookies; Boston trauma; struggle mug plug (preorder yours today! link to store) 31:40 - we welcome Claus; gnomes; Lauren's dumb q's about scandi colonial history; Sweden’s covid response 53:33 - why is norway such a literary powerhouse;...
Beyond the Discourse of the Wind (ft. Mason)
November 16, 2021 17:18 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBA rainy Sunday night in ---. Two broadcasters, a man and a woman recently arrived from Central Park, convene in the cramped kitchen of the man's lodging with Malbec and Port Salut. There is much to speak of - the Kinks, a mangled papaya dog, an invective against tweets by Wallace Shawn (Swan?) - but as their trivial chatter progresses, a mystery emerges (as it ought in all literature): who is the third figure in the kitchen? The man and the woman keep making reference to a Byronic figure the...
Live from Family Brooklyn (ft. Willy Staley)
November 01, 2021 18:47 - 2 hours - 96.6 MBOctober 31, 2021 The autumn has been long; and the weather, a mood. The leaves are perfectly gold here on the Gold Coast (that swathe of Brooklyn lining the East River - Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens -- where the bourgeois-bohemian class reproduces) and soon I, William Staley (more commonly and phallicly known as Willy), will bundle my 8-month-old son into garb of a Gnome, and take him out into the fall crispness to experience his first Hallowe'en. But before I ...
All the things she struggled
October 18, 2021 23:36 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBDrew's cover of All The Things She Said by t.A.T.u. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Le Quotidian Pain (ft. Dasha Nekrasova)
October 18, 2021 00:04 - 2 hours - 114 MBShe showed up smoking marlboro lights and talking about a ribbon store nearby. This was on west 38 street, where I’d rented, for 250 dollars, a studio for the recording sesh. My voice was ragged, frayed, like late period Dylan, on account of a cold I acquired in Greenpoint, at a play, and three classes a day on the Metamorphosis: I encouraged my students to notice patterns, the transformations within transformations, the repetition of the word deliverance--they drew dung-beetle dicks on the ...
Intimate Drizzle (ft. Emmie Francis and Luke Brown)
October 09, 2021 14:47 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBI have to go to Dayton Ohio in a second to visit my Aunt Bunny but long story short it was the afternoon of the Brooklyn Tote Bag Fest, Drew took shelter in the den of the Wizard of Remsen Street fka Christian Lorentzen and he podded from there while the Cousins beamed in from across the POnd. (I was back in the finished basement of the Old House.) Some more food motifs emerged: the steak tartare at Odeon and pasta puttanesca, namely. Emmie, a publishing big wig in London, wanted to know abo...
Fistula with Walnut Sauce (ft. Delicious Tacos)
September 27, 2021 15:23 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBAfter a run of guests who are total sweethearts in addition to being huge fans of the show & Knausgaard, Lauren and Drew, longing for some friction, welcome the notorious sex writer & Knausgaard skeptic Delicious Tacos to the pod. Turns out the pseudonymous de Sade actually bears a lot of similarities to Knaus (albeit much hornier) - but can L&D convince DT that KOK is actually pretty OK? cheat sheet: 0:00 - Drew expatiates on the Jewish summer camp ritual of "Minty Balls" 9:20 - DT sho...
1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 2)
September 13, 2021 16:40 - 2 hours - 84.6 MBDrew is shirtless and eating 5% Fage. Lauren walks us through her coffee making process. We respond to a series of increasingly deranged missives and talk Marguerite Duras, Pirates of the Caribbean, Little Rascals, situationism, Morrissey in Sweden, spinach, fapping to Wallace Shawn. We promise to not do this again for another year. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 1)
August 30, 2021 17:36 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBWell we were GOING to do this all in one go but then Drew supposedly got recognized at local watering hole Clandestino by a listener who took him to the underworld (brooklyn) and I guess something unspeakable ensued because Drew showed up an hour late to our recording session and looked and sounded like absolute death. It actually made for some pretty good content though, Drew was delirious and rambling and spent the first half hour recapping his journey to Clandestino in Knausgaardian level...
Free On The Inside (ft. Donald Morrison)
August 18, 2021 14:17 - 2 hours - 120 MBWe're back! After their triumphant NYC debut, Lauren is back in DC, Drew's moved into Morningside Heights with his Jane Goodall-fancying roommate, and they're ready to chat Grandma's shit death house with their pal Donny Morrissey, an investigative journalist and fan of the show who was first K-pilled some years ago during a stint in county jail for heroin possession. This is a classic struggle session, with equal parts textual analysis and Martin anus riffing. You're going to want to shoot ...
Remsen Street Rawdog (ft. Christian Lorentzen and Krithika Varagur)
August 04, 2021 20:01 - 1 hour - 125 MBAfter six years apart, Lauren and Drew reunite in the Den of the Wizard of Remsen Street (noted literary critic Christian Lorentzen) to produce [sic] an episode that some will call unlistenable and others mumblecore. They bear witness to the completion of a new Lorentzen piece (“I’m going to see my editor at the bar later,” he says). Lauren fiddles fruitlessly with wires and mics she picked up from a listener/new friend serendipitously named Gunnar in Williamsburg, Drew sprawls out on the c...
Remsen Street Rawdog (ft. Christian Lorentzen)
August 04, 2021 20:01 - 1 hour - 125 MBAfter six years apart, Lauren and Drew reunite in the Den of the Wizard of Remsen Street (noted literary critic Christian Lorentzen) to produce [sic] an episode that some will call unlistenable and others mumblecore. They bear witness to the completion of a new Lorentzen piece (“I’m going to see my editor at the bar later,” he says). Lauren fiddles fruitlessly with wires and mics she picked up from a listener/new friend serendipitously named Gunnar in Williamsburg, Drew sprawls out on the co...
Islets in the Flood (ft. Rosie Gray)
July 28, 2021 15:21 - 2 hours - 104 MB~~~LAUREN'S HOUSEKEEPING SECTION~~~ Deadline for our 1st anniversary call-in show is AUGUST 14th. Call us or email us with your questions, comments, concerns, parody songs: Voicemail: 443-584-6486 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] T-SHIRTS: Help Lauren go (deeper) into the black by buying a t-shirt! All shirts come with a handwritten, personalized, DNA-laden post-it. Buy one today! ourstruggle.store ~~~DREW'S VOLUMINOUS NOTES SECTION~~~ Updike’s spunkcrusted house ...
Boys Keep Struggling
July 15, 2021 12:55 - 1 minute - 1.74 MBPerformed and Recorded by Andrew Ohringer in His Mother's Wood-Paneled Basement --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Vanguard of the Supplicants (ft. Torrey Peters)
July 14, 2021 14:16 - 2 hours - 182 MBWe were a little perplexed when Torrey Peters came groveling before us to come on the show. She’d written a best-selling novel with big topical themes--and other odd things like scenes, characters, plot. Why did she want to talk to two people who’ve devoted their own discourse to a seemingly shapeless, semi-essayistic inventory of one Norwegian’s life? Torrey quickly provided her Scandinavian lit bona fides--which is to say she gave us detailed accounts of her homosocial and romantic adve...
Imaginary Boardwalks (ft. Joshua Cohen)
June 29, 2021 12:56 - 2 hours - 205 MBOur Struggle returns! It's 100 degrees outside so come out to the shore and take a trip under the boardwalk with us and our very special guest Joshua Cohen (author of The Netanyahus; buy it now)! A Book of Questions about our season 2 premiere: Why is Joshua Cohen compared only to the dead? What is the sound of one ball-sack slapping against wet tile in a banya? Why does Lauren think the past is quaint? Is auto-fiction solipsistic and foreclosed? How does JC avoid setting off the b...
Longing, Death, Form (Season 1 Sparknotes: Themes and Motifs)
June 09, 2021 10:47 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBIn the wake of their newfangled fame, Lauren and Drew look back at the themes and characters of Season 1 and attend to correspondence from fans and detractors. Sample of Drew’s “intricate notes”: -Cold open w/Drew’s senioritis suicide note -game of pricks --season 1 finale montage badinage --things we can’t talk about; a final solution for goldendoodles; reddit pedants; lit critic lothario --We respond to a subterranean missive from an anti- fan with extremist prose style --Unme...
Sheepdog Brain (ft. Dean Kissick)
June 04, 2021 14:55 - 2 hours - 106 MBSurely one of our most Knausgaardian episodes yet - we spent four hours last Sunday afternoon - a rainy, unseasonably cold day in the mid-Atlantic - chatting with brilliant art critic and prolific croissant eater Dean Kissick. Manhattan traffic hummed outside of Dean's window, we took a yogurt break followed by a coffee break, there was a brief drama involving an overheated MacBook computer, and we of course witnessed Dean don and doff his Argyle sweater no less than three times (although we...
Minutt for Minutt
May 19, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBWE ARE BACK! After a dire situation earlier this month, Our Struggle returns, as lo-fi and perfunctory as ever! It's just us boys again this ep but be assured we have some VERY prestigious and intellectual guests on the horizon, so if you're one of those dweebs who listens to our show for so-called "literary criticism" and "thoughtful discussion of the work of Karl Ove Knausgaard" just hold on a little longer. MAJOR shout out to "The financial times of Norway" DAGENS NAERINGSLIV AKA DN whi...
Seersucker Semiotics (Trauma Processing Special)
April 27, 2021 15:26 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBAfter a run of well-received episodes with prestigious guests and a Bookforum mention we are ready for our slow decline! It's just us boys on this pod, testing out our new mics and recording software, beginning to drift imperceptibly away from our lo-fi roots & thus our scruffy charm and ultimately, our integrity. But for now we're talking about trauma! As listeners who follow us on so-called Twitter probably know, Lauren was attacked on the Metro by a mentally ill man a couple weeks ago and...
Roast Chicken Feedback (ft. Leo Robson)
April 17, 2021 14:40 - 1 hour - 141 MBCritic Leo Robson is our erudite and eloquent guide as we lose ourselves in the estuaries and marshes of Henry James’s sinuous “blue river of truth.” We begin in the archives of Leo’s G-chat and Whatsapp messages, where he first heard--and ignored--whispers of KOK’s boundless literary project. His indifference breaks down, however, after he and friend of the pod Christian Lorentzen take a desultory post-stag-party walk through Barcelona. A lugubrious Leo, sick of John Berger’s Marxist readin...
Hot in Translation (ft. Benjamin Moser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
April 07, 2021 16:11 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBWe did it folks. We somehow got a Pulitzer Prize winner to go on the pod. And can I just say? Not only is my close personal friend Ben (as I call him, because of how tight we are) a Pulitzer Prize winner, he is also a PERFECT 10 (google image search him). If you don't feel like googling him let me briefly list his credentials: he wrote the DEFINITIVE biography of my soul sister (and possible friend/lover of my grandfather?? we'll get into that one next time) Clarice Lispector and translated ...
First of the gang to struggle
March 22, 2021 15:33 - 3 minutes - 4.09 MBPerformed and recorded by Andrew Ohringer in his mother's basement --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Johnson's Johnson (ft. James Griffiths)
March 19, 2021 03:04 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBIT'S THE RETURN OF THE WELSH WARRIOR! The Duke of Cardiff himself, prestigious CNN journalist James Griffiths is back on the pod and folks?? We got a little off topic!! But who gives a shit, you don't pay for this (yet) and what is a Knausgaard podcast without copious digression (the imitative fallacy can fuck right off)!! Due what I am self diagnosing as fatigue from the J&J vaccine I am too tired to write a full fledged recap but some things we covered in this were: Drew's guide to seduc...
On Whale Steaks and Quinoa (ft. Alicia Kennedy)
March 04, 2021 15:18 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBIf you have listened to even one episode of this show you know that we are obsessed with Karl Ove's meals, from the open sandwiches and rissoles of his youth to the smug quinoa salads he avoids as an adult in Stockholm. Well guess what? We somehow got prestigious food writer (and KOK superfan) Alicia Kennedy to agree to come on the pod to talk spreads in My Struggle. This was truly one of our funnest episodes yet - enjoy! cheat sheet: 14:40 - We tackle one of the most perplexing paradoxes ...
The Power of Lo-OVE
February 24, 2021 16:04 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBOur Struggle returns, and this time it's "just us boys"! This is a vibes-packed episode that is sure to alienate any new so-called intellectual listeners we may have gained via our show with esteemed Gen X critic Christian L but who gives a shit, we're vibing out like it's the first weekend of 1985 and Dad has left us a basket of fresh shrimp and a 500 krone note while he's away at a seminar. The passage we cover starts at 141 in Kindle, not sure what it is in paper sorry cheat sheet: 12:...
Game of Pricks (struggle)
February 07, 2021 16:03 - 2 minutes - 3.52 MBDrew's cover of our theme song, Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks", recorded from his desolate boarding school cloister in Pennsburg --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message
Parquet Elegy (ft. Christian Lorentzen)
February 05, 2021 16:57 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBOur Struggle returns, and this time with highly prestigious guest Christian Lorentzen! In addition to being our new token Gen X friend, Christian is a famous literary critic whose work appears regularly in Harper's, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and other high falutin venues. He has not only reviewed book 6 of My Struggle for TLS but SMOKED CIGARETTES WITH THE MAN HIMSELF during an interview for New York magazine. In this episode we discuss one of the most memor...