''I Love Dick'' is a novel by American artist and author Chris Kraus. Published by

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in 1997, ''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" and the book continues to be an interdisciplinary point of reference for writers, artists, art historians and theorists. The book announced Kraus' particular brand of "confessional literature" that she herself described as "lonely girl phenomenology". The writer

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called it, "one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page". Later identified as Dick Hebdige, "Dick"'s sporadic presence in Chris's life changes her thinking about her marriage (to philosopher and

founder Sylvère Lotringer) and to her work, as well. The novel was adapted in 2017 as a television series by the same name for

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. It was directed by Joey Soloway and stars

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and

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N+1 Magazine write-up.''I Love Dick.'' The MIT Press."I Love Poets: An Interview with Chris Kraus." The Poetry Foundation.Yale Daily News. Write-up."Chris Kraus: The Noir of Dubya, the blankness of suburbia and bringing Baudrillard to sing in the Nevada Desert." Dazed Digital
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