![]() ![]() (this is from Ruth’s email newsletter, which you can subscribe to here). So in a sense, I Love Dick is about a crush. Chris feels an immediate connection to Dick, writes him many letters she doesn’t send, then she does send them, then she goes to see him, then she writes an entire manifesto on the phenomenology of her attraction to him, tells the story of Jennifer Harbury, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, and the Guatemalan Coca-Cola strike, gives an overview of 80s/90s poetry, art, and critical theory, and tiny detail by detail (“the more particular the information, the more likely it will be a paradigm”), builds an airtight case for the place of female vulnerability and women’s personal experience in art, as well as a damning indictment of the inescapable power imbalance of heterosexuality. Okay, fine, here is a synopsis: “The novel traces the evolution of the narrator (“Chris”)’s feelings for “Dick,” a minor cultural critic she meets through her husband Sylvère. You need this book - in ebook format, on your phone, on your person, ready to search and reference and screenshot at will at all times. We have wanted to sell this book for five years now, and finally it’s here. ![]()
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