While we’re comfortable with the comic male loser in literature – a figure who spends his time stuffing his face and masturbating in a basement to images of the women who have rejected him – his loser sister is a much trickier bird. ’ Was Bill bothered that such a marginal sexless hag as me wasn’t living in the street? I was picking up the restaurant check and driving a new car and obviously this cover story about an art school teaching job fooled no one. She writes:īack in Columbus, Bill Horrigan, Media Curator at the Wexner, asked me how I ‘really’ managed to support myself. She is a professional failure as a film-maker, as well as a failure as a conventionally attractive object of desire. The heroine, like all Chris Kraus’s literary protagonists (I Love Dick is the first novel of a trilogy), is a radical loser.
Photograph: Patrick Wymore/Amazon Prime Video Chris: a radical professional failure as a film-maker.
