I Love Dick is an epistolary novel with autofiction elements by American artist and author Chris Kraus. It was published in 1997 by Semiotext(e). I Love Dick merges fiction and memoir formats to explore the writer's psycho-sexual obsession with the eponymous "Dick", a media theorist and sociologist whose last name is never given over the course of the text, despite other art world personalities appearing as themselves. Critics hailed it as both "radical" and "gossipy". The book announced Kraus' particular brand of "confessional literature" that she herself described as "lonely girl phenomenology". American writer Rick Moody called it "one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page".
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I Love Dick was adapted into a 2016 television series.
I Love Dick2016 · television series · 32 min · IMDb ↗IMDb6.4Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, the series charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.
