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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In The Land Of The PSYOPs
January 17, 2021 22:39 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBAfter a nearly two month hiatus, Our Struggle returns! Lauren and Drew are back and spicier than ever, delivering for you our timely review of KOK's new essay collection "In the Land of the Cyclops" (which to be clear neither of us have read) before getting on with struggle session 1.2 covering Karl Ove's My Struggle book 1 reflections on his diaper-laden domestic life in the aforementioned land of the cyclops (Sweden). cheat sheet: 0:00 - Drew connects with a guy on Instagram 8:00 - We r...
Taking the K-pill ft. James Griffiths
November 26, 2020 17:18 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBHappy Thanksgiving (and to our Romanian listeners: happy thursday!) Last week we welcomed our friend, Hong Kong-based CNN correspondent James Griffiths, to the pod for what may be our smartest episode yet. Apparently the scintillating genius of our show is what spurred James to finally crack open My Struggle: A Death in the Family, so we interviewed him about his journey down the K-hole. Did the book live up to his expectations? And how did it stack up next to KOK's famous nyt magazine piec...
Nut cheese (struggle session 1.1)
November 10, 2020 17:11 - 1 hour - 49 MBFuture recipient of the Kamala Harris Grant for Literary Podcasts is back! In this episode we finally get into the belly of the mackerel with a scene-by-scene breakdown of the first 15 or so pages of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: A Death in the Family. This is a new thing we're trying because we realized we hadn't actually talked about MS yet. But please be assured the interviews with people who have not read Knausgaard will continue! We've been getting a lot of nice listener feedback ...
Come From Away ft. John Cullen
October 27, 2020 14:35 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBThe struggle continues in the third episode of OS as we attempt to bridge the America/Canada cultural divide in a conversation as wide-ranging as the breadth of the interior between Vancouver and St. Johns! Our guest is our new friend John Cullen, a Canadian, comedian and co-host of the Blocked Party podcast, which is by some metrics actually a more famous podcast than Our Struggle. John has done his homework for this episode and raises the salient question: Is Karl Ove Knausgaard actually j...
Salmon Diplomacy ft. Brendan O'Kane
September 28, 2020 15:16 - 1 hour - 51 MBIt's our sophomore slump! In the second episode of Our Struggle, we welcome guest Brendan O'Kane, a renown sinologist and literary translator who has not only not read Knausgaard but adamantly refuses to. Can we convince him that early modern Chinese literature and My Struggle have more in common than he'd think? 0:00 - More fish talk. Drew had a canned fish phase; we predict another salmon-heavy diplomatic standoff between China and Norway. 21:24 - After spending way too much time looking...
Our Struggle To Start A Podcast ft. Robert Rust (a Real Norwegian)
August 19, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBNOTE TO LISTENERS: DREW'S AUDIO GETS BETTER IN THE SECOND HALF I PROMISE Call this episode the opposite of Norwegian cuisine because boy is it SPICY! In the pilot episode of Our Struggle we put the following institutions on blast: quinoa, Sweden, the New Yorker, and august literary critic James Wood (for being a beautiful genius :) ). This is a jam-packed episode that is sure to make you laugh AND make you contemplate your mortality. - so will James Wood give it a positive review? (Pleas...
TRAILER - OUR STRUGGLE TO PRONOUNCE "KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD"
August 18, 2020 20:19 - 1 minute - 1.01 MBIN this preview our friend Rob (a real Norwegian) teaches us how to say the great man's name in the AUTHENTIC style of the fjord peoples --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message