“I had never seen people that fat before. The strange thing was that none of them looked as if they were trying to hide their enormous girth; quite the opposite, several people were wearing tight T-shirts with their big bellies sticking out proudly.” Karl Ove Knausgaard, famous for writing an enormous multi-volume book about himself called My Struggle, writes about himself in North America for the NYT Magazine.

+ If you are a Knausgaard groupie, then you will love this pillow I had made for wife for Valentine’s Day.