Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens &
Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e)
Reader. Index called her "one of the most subversive voices in
American fiction." Her work has been praised for its damning
intelligence, vulnerability and dazzling speed.
Bad Reputation Performances, Essays, Interviews Penny Arcade Cloth / October 2009 An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York. Price $19.95 | ADD TO CART
David Wojnarowicz A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti and Justin Cavin (Eds.) Cloth / October 2006 Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylvère Lotringer, along with personal accounts from friends and fellow artists collected after Wojnarowicz's death. Price $29.95 | ADD TO CART
I Love Dick Chris Kraus Paper / September 2006 A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration. Price $14.95 | ADD TO CART
Torpor Chris Kraus Paper / March 2006 A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TV show thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania to adopt a child. Price $14.95 | ADD TO CART
Video Green Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness Chris Kraus Paper / August 2004 Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs. Price $14.95 | ADD TO CART
Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus Paper / March 2000 In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem." Price $12.95 | ADD TO CART
