I Love Dick, Chris Kraus’s auto-fiction about the obsessions of a writer named Chris Kraus, has influenced a generation of writers to experiment with blurring fact and fiction as a way to claim radical subjectivity. The book has now been adapted into an Amazon Prime series produced by Jill Soloway (Transparent). In a conversation about how genre-crossing writing makes visible issues of feminism, race, queerness, and culture, Kraus will talk with other writers who have experimented with hybrid forms: Tisa Bryant (Unexplained Presence), whose hybridized writings explore the presumed absence of Black bodies in film and literature; Anelise Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions), whose dissections of sports and personal history interrogate ideas about success; and Q.M. Zhang (Accomplice to Memory), whose hybrid memoir utilizes tools of fiction and non-fiction to uncover her father’s secret past.
