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Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of Green Girl (Harper Perennial) and Heroines (Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents). Her first novella, O Fallen Angel, will be reissued by Harper Perennial in January 2017. She is at work on a series of books about time, memory, and the persistence of art. Book of Mutter... show more



Kate Zambreno is the author of Green Girl (Harper Perennial) and Heroines (Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents). Her first novella, O Fallen Angel, will be reissued by Harper Perennial in January 2017. She is at work on a series of books about time, memory, and the persistence of art. Book of Mutter will be published by Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents in March 2017. Drifts is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in November 2017.

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coffee & ink
coffee & ink rated it 12 years ago
Subashini Navarnam: Zambreno seems to be circling around mothers in her work—on her blog she has talked quite frankly about her relationship with her own (now deceased) mother: her relationship to her mother, her relationship to her death. There’s a great line in Heroines about “panopticon mothers”,...
proustitute
proustitute rated it 12 years ago
Review published in 3:AM Magazine: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/breakdown-not-breakthrough/Critically irreverent and at the same time theoretically flawed, Kate Zambreno’s Heroines shows an obvious stylistic debt to the work of writers like Kathy Acker and Hélène Cixous. Indeed, following Cixous, ...
scottakennedy
scottakennedy rated it 13 years ago
A devasting prose-poem on the lack of identity that can infect one's early 20s. I loved it. Worth reading for the narrative voice alone. Also, I should mention that I had no intention of actually reading this book when I did. But glancing at the first few pages sucked me right in and then I coul...
Raging Biblioholism
Raging Biblioholism rated it 13 years ago
A difficult book to discuss. I spent over 1000 words at RB trying to sum up my thoughts and come to a ratings consensus. Mostly, I just feel numb - like when listening to "Avalanche" by Ryan Adams and wanting to just, exactly as that song's protagonist does: "fall apart in the avalanche, fade out ...
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