If you’ve ever pored over the pioneering autofiction classic I Love Dick (or, for that matter, watched its Joey Soloway-helmed 2016 TV adaptation starring Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon), you likely need no introduction to Chris Kraus. The Bronx-born author’s oeuvre also includes the novels Aliens and Anorexia, Summer of Hate , and Torpor and the essay collections Video Green and Where Art Belongs .

Kraus, who is co-editor of the publishing house Semiotext(e), has a new book out this week: The Four Spent the Day Together , an autobiography-meets-true-crime novel about a murder case in northern Minnesota and the bystanders it entrances. To mark the occasion, Vogue asked her to reflect on the five books that made her into the genre-defining and wildly prolific writer she i

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