Zadie Smith calls his work crack. Jeffrey Eugenides says it broke the sound barrier of the autobiographical novel. Readers around the world have flocked to Karl Ove Knausgaard’s nearly 3,500-page epic hypnotic journey through life as an artist as he’s lived it. Highly confessional and irresistibly beautiful, Knausgaard mines the large and small moments of his own narrative from grappling with death, love, art, and fear to going all-in on the mundane, intimate details of everyday existence. With its fierce honesty and ambitious vision, the six-part My Struggle series transcends all genres of first-person writing and forever changes the relationship between author and reader. On the occasion of the publication of the long awaited final installment in the series—Book Six, which confronts the impact of blurring the line between private and public—the Norwegian writer makes a rare West Coast appearance to share his most recent work on the ALOUD stage. Join us for a conversation between Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz and Knausgaard on this monumental work and the radical act of total transparency. Co-presented with The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Center for the Art of Translation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books