In front of a packed house at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, the celebrated Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (My Struggle) spoke with Esopus editor Tod Lippy about “On the Value of LIterature,” his 5,000-word essay that appears in Esopus 23. Knausgaard also took questions from the audience about his writing process, and the evening ended with a book-signing. VIEW MORE PHOTOS