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Nov 21, 2024 | 
documentjournal.com | Kate Zambreno
Following Semiotext(e)’s release of Lippens’s ‘Ripcord’ and ‘My Dead Book,’ the authors trace consciousnesses of queerness and class through both novels and friendships I first started communicating with Nate Lippens during a period when I was more online. He had read and written about my work in such a generous way—I didn’t realize until later that Nate reads everything, he’s an omnivore, maybe the best reader-writer I know, totally self-educated.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
countercraft.substack.com | Sofia Samatar |Kate Zambreno |Lincoln Michel
Recently, my friend Michael Barron emailed me with a book recommendation—Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams—and a question: was I still doing book recommendations on Counter Craft? I interview authors with new books out, but it has been a while since I wrote a post praising older, obscure, or translated works. I’m a little embarrassed about that.
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May 24, 2024 | 
jessicadefino.substack.com | Kate Zambreno |Jessica Defino |Emily Kirkpatrick
We started a podcast! Please enjoy the first episode of The Review of Mess: an audio collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by me, Jessica DeFino) and (a fashion newsletter from ). Once a month, Emily and I will be sweeping up the messiest moments in celebrity beauty and fashion.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
mitpress.mit.edu | Kate Zambreno |Jamie Hood
Description Praise A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. 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 order—pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sofia Samatar |Kate Zambreno |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss
A fresh perspective on an elusive element of literature. Samatar, author of The White Mosque, and Zambreno, author of The Light Room, offer a lyrical, erudite meditation on the enigmatic concept of tone in literature, drawing on responses from readers in the self-designated Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere. In the eclectic works they examine, tone can take on qualities of fog, dust, rot, snow, and light; color, temperature, or sound.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
archyworldys.com | Kate Zambreno |Lisa Kreissler
As of: November 8th, 2023 6:00 a.mKate Zambreno spent 13 years collecting for her novel about her late mother. After her book “Heroines” she approaches another of her heroines in “Mother (A Murmur)”. The author Kate Zambreno, born in Illinois in 1977, is known in America for her clever texts about art, femininity and writing.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
theparisreview.org | Kate Zambreno
By Kate Zambreno October 25, 2023 Each summer, when they couldn’t stand the city anymore, when the heat was unbearable, and they had a brief reprieve, they drove for three days to the middle of the country to stay at a log cabin on a lake that her grandfather had built now a century ago and where she had spent summers during her childhood.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
fivebooks.com | Hua Hsu |Elliot Page |Kate Zambreno
What are the most acclaimed memoirs of 2023? Well, usually here I’d have two automatic answers: this year’s winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Memoir. But what would you know—in 2023, the same book won both. Bard professor and New Yorker writer Hua Hsu’s Stay True centres upon the death of a Berkeley classmate in a bungled armed robbery.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
fivebooks.com | Brenda Lozano |Annie McDermott |J M Coetzee |Kate Zambreno
Could you talk me through the appeal of writing a counterfactual novel, and what the decision to create an alternate reality offers a novelist? Your latest book, Biography of X, is set in a contemporary United States that is very like, but not quite, our own. After the Second World War, the American South seceded, was run by a theocratic regime, then was reunited with the North.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno’s The Light Room is out today from Riverhead, so we asked her a few questions about her favorite books to recommend, what she gravitates to when she’s not reading or writing, and more. *Literary Hub: Who do you most wish would read your book? Kate Zambreno: I hope people read it who will find solace in it, who needed the book at that time. I hope this book can be a balm for others, a space of joy as well as exhaustion and deep sadness, a space to think with.
