"Chris Kraus believes in 'subliminal cross-referencing' of times and cultures and describes it in a lively and highly entertaining language free of unnecessary academic musings. Somewhat like that great art historian and sociologist Arnold Hausser, the author believes in the spirit of her own age but is able to treat it with 'grace' that is refracted through the multicontoured mirror of all other preceding eras." Nina Zivancevic , American Book Review "Chris Kraus combines fiction, autobiography and criticism in ways that are as funny and provocative as her titles ( Aliens and Anorexia, for example)." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Chris, and her generation of feminist theoreticians, e.g., Avital Ronell, Jane Gallup, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, did much more to embody the possibilities that were made possible by May 1968 and the critical writing of Tel Quel, etc., than the men who staked out all the early positions before succumbing to tenure." Rick Moody " Torpor is as good a Grand Tour love story as James or Wharton, as good a memoir of Upstate New York as Edmund Wilson or Frederick Exley, a brilliant study of a Holocaust survivor, a brilliant study of the moral character of philosophers, the art world, academia, ambition, real estate, sex, orphans, and the fall of Romania. Kraus is as fun a travel writer as Ian Fleming, with a touch of Travels With Charley, and she writes about the strangeness of the world in a clear American prose filled with emotion, but with no vapors of style and forced effect to hide behind. I"ve read all of her books. Chris Kraus is a great writer." Michael Tolkin , author of Among the Dead "[The narrative is] so startling that it resuscitates words long fallen out of fashion: Torpor is honest and true." Alex Kitnick The Believer " Torpor concerns itself with a feminist filmmaker consumed and confounded by the intellect and desire of a rapacious philosopher-lover. It"s personalized and smart with open thought and independent energy." Vanity Fair " Torpor is a brilliant, funny, and moving novel about the failure of a marriage and the moral vacuum created by the global "success" of contemporary American culture." Rain Taxi "A very cool surprise." Thurston Moore Arthur "Chris Kraus believes in 'subliminal cross-referencing' of times and cultures and describes it in a lively and highly entertaining language free of unnecessary academic musings. Somewhat like that great art historian and sociologist Arnold Hausser, the author believes in the spirit of her own age but is able to treat it with 'grace' that is refracted through the multicontoured mirror of all other preceding eras." Nina Zivancevic American Book Review "Dazzling... [A] hilarious and biting satire of academia and the art world." Leslie Camhi Nextbook "Kraus is an underrated thinker and critic; her books form a compelling record of recent art and culture, and make substantial contributions to both." Publishers Weekly Kraus's occasionally terse style, her use of time and place and lexicon and architecture and cultural mood in place of communications or feelings is a new language. A non-emotional language for emotions. I want to tell her thank you, and mazel tov. Lisa Carver The Globe and Mail

Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.