Chris Kraus I Love Dick hat

Available again with the kind permission of the author

Chris Kraus (b. 1955) is an American writer and filmmaker. She was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised mostly in New Zealand, where she lived until moving back to New York City at age 21, in the late 1970s. Working as an experimental filmmaker, she became involved in the downtown NYC art and intellectual scene. In 1990, she founded the Native Agents imprint of Semiotext(e) Press to publish fiction, mostly by women, as an analogue to the French theories of subjectivity in the Foreign Agents series, which was edited by the press' founder (and her husband) Sylvère Lotringer.

In 1997, Kraus published her first novel, I Love Dick. The book is written as a series of love letters to the subject of the narrator's romantic obsession, a character based on the real-life cultural critic Dick Hebdige. This liason is at first encouraged by her husband, in the hope that it will inject excitement into their foundering relationship. Both a pioneering work of feminist confessional fiction and a roman à clef of her artistic and intellectual milieu, I Love Dick was initially received poorly but has since been hailed as a cult classic and a touchstone of contemporary autofiction. It was adapted into a TV series by Joey Soloway in 2017.

Kraus continues to have a prolific career as a cultural critic and fiction writer. Her other books inclue  Aliens & Anorexia (2000), Torpor (2006), Where Art Belongs (2011), Summer of Hate (2012), After Kathy Acker (2017), Social Practices (2018) and, most recently, The Four Spent the Day Together (2025). 

This hat's typeface is based on the Semiotext(e) edition of I Love Dick.

• 100% chino cotton twill
• Unstructured, 6-panel, low-profile
• 6 embroidered eyelets
• 3 ⅛” (7.6 cm) crown
• Adjustable strap with antique buckle