Force of Habit

Chris Kraus thinks she has the least addictive personality of anyone she knows. “I love having one-and-a-half glasses of wine at the opening. As soon as I start to feel it, I stop," says the writer most famous for I Love Dick, 1997, a book about a woman who is so sexually and intellectually obsessed with a man that she produces hundreds of rambling love letters over the course of a year. “I smoked for years and always managed to keep it to three or four cigarettes a day so I wouldn't have to quit. I never go all in. I always moderate.”