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Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambreno is the author, most recently, of The Light Room, published by Corsair July 2024, and Tone, a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar. Heroines will be reissued by Semiotext(e) in March and Corsair in September 2024. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. 

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 166
Essays & Memoir | Issue 166

Generation Gap

Kate Zambreno

‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’

Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On Marguerite Duras

Kate Zambreno

‘Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young.’

Kate Zambreno on Marguerite Duras.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

In a Letter

Kate Zambreno

‘How is it possible we lived in that same house? Although every house in that neighborhood looked more or less alike.’ A story by Kate Zambreno.

Fiction | Issue 158 padlock
Fiction | Issue 158 padlock

a cold white wing

Kate Zambreno

‘I wonder what I sounded like, whether my voice was recognizable as the animal I had been.’

Fiction by Kate Zambreno.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Kathryn Scanlan & Kate Zambreno

‘When a day is not structured by appointments, meetings, driving to work, taking lunch, driving home, shopping (i.e. capitalism), its soft, loose (wild?) shapelessness becomes apparent.’

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