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Kate Zambreno
A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued with a new introduction after more than a decade.
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Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spending long days alone with her restless terrier…
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Kate Zambreno, Jamie Hood
A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.
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A moving account of art and caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss
Book to Watch in 2019: The Millions, Nylon, Domino, Bustle, Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness…
'Kate Zambreno's writing is mysterious, unclassifiable, and yet intimate and familiar,' Jenny Zhang has written. Now, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life…
This book was originally published in 2011 by Emergency Press –T.p. verso.
To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who…
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A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.
On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno’s addendum to Book of Mutter.
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Sofia Samatar, Kate Zambreno
Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, exploring its implications for community, politics, and ecology.
Originally published: Portland, Oregon: Chiasmus Press, 2009.
Mieko Kanai
In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity
Kate Zambreno, Laura McLean-Ferris, Martin Herbert
The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist Michael Raedecker's work spanning his 30-year career
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Marguerite Duras
'One of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and prose stylists' New York Times
'A novel of the disquieting contours of family, and of the mind, and of life unceasing even…
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras’s foundational masterpiece about a young woman’s existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.
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