»Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat och naivt.« |SvD »Kate Zambreno skär som med…
Bländande feministisk memoar om modernismens litterära myter »Lika delar oförskräckt patos och exceptionell intelligens. Ett imponerande och originellt verk som undersöker undertryckandet av en rad kvinnliga modernister, i relation till Zambrenos eg…
On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter."I came up with the idea of writing these notes, or talks, out of a primary desire to not read from Book of Mutter, and instead to keep gesturing to its incompleten…
Book to Watch in 2019: The Millions, Nylon, Domino, Bustle, Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vol. 1 BrooklynA new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness of life as a woman and writer, on fame and failure…
In Screen Tests, an astoundingly original and stylish collection, Zambreno has once again created new categories of writing, of vivid and surprising language and thought. In the first half, the narrator regales us with incisive and witty swatches fr…
A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childh…
»I korta, intensiva stycken skriver Zambreno sin roman; stenhårda, glimrande som ädelstenar.« | Therese Eriksson, SvD »Det påminner om franska nya vågen-filmer, om Marguerite Duras distanserade blick.« | Ida Therén, Jönköpings-Posten »Det är i stort…
A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem "One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half…
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched por…
Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker i DN! »Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat o…
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag orde…
The haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, O Fallen Angel, is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis--and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family--now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavi…
A deeply literate, warmly funny novel of creative obsession and the unruly body Beguiling and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spe…
From the essay "Feel Me" by Roxane Gay: Niche dating sites are interesting. You can go to JDate or Christian Mingle or Black People Meet or any number of dating websites. If you have certain criteria, you can find people who look like you or share y…
