The Our Struggle podcast, ostensibly about the books by Karl Ove Knausgaard, has evolved into a deadpan and delightful destination all its own.
, a punkishly off-piste podcast that has become the counterprogramming of choice for a tiny but exquisitely well-read tranche of listeners.sums up the unorthodox and highly unpopular show, which is putatively dedicated to unpacking the six-volume autobiographical series by the Norwegian writer“It’s a very small club that I’m sure anyone can join,” said novelist and Bookforum contributorwho is scheduled to appear on an upcoming episode. “I don’t think you need to have read Knausgaard to go on it.
The literary-world heavyweights who agree to come on air can count on fielding questions like, “Why don’t you have a funny little Norwegian accent?” “Have you ever caught a fish?” “How does your Albanian heritage play out in your life?” Hostsages 28 and 29, respectively, banter in their own private language, equal parts deadpan and delighted.
“I don’t know, man, it just popped in my head,” said Teixeira, who now works as a “professional babysitter” . “Sometimes I just get these ideas and they don’t leave me.” The pair got to work, setting up a Twitter account and sliding into the DMs of members of the literary world who they hoped would agree to come onto the show. Sometimes they crowdsourced requests for email addresses .
In the thirteen episodes that have come out since, Knausgaard looms small while we learn of the hosts’ and guests’ own personal arcana and struggles. Knausgaard comes up once in Susan Sontag biographerepisode, whose 109 minutes touched on the Pulitzer Prize–winning guest’s daily food shop, Teixeira’s love of Adidas tracksuits, and the importance of hotness to a writer’s success .
Visitors’ hearts are not always warmed. The hosts don’t treat their guests with reverence. In fact, some might interpret their goofy spirit as impertinence. British writerrecent interview was marred by technical issues and a game that did not go down well. Dyer, a prolific blurber, declined to draw on his talent and compose on-the-spot blurbs for words such as “archipelago” and “Ever Given,” the ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal.
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