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I am a longtime reader and admirer of the work of Kate Zambreno. From Heroines to Drifts to To Write As If Already Dead—and everything in between—to their latest book Foam (out September 15), their work has traversed and transcended boundaries between fiction and nonfiction in surprising ways. Their commitment to truth-telling about the material conditions of writing, of mothering, and and of simply living in precarious times has been a beacon.
Foam continues to blur lines between not just fiction and nonfiction, but the domestic and the professional as well as persona, making it an extraordinary reading experience. We will discuss this book as well as the rest of their books, the writing life, and more.
From the Desk members join free using the code here. Members will also receive access to the full recording as part of the Salon Series archive.
WHEN
Sunday, September 20
2 p.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom
A link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event. Please use the email address at which you’d like to receive the communication.
WHO
Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including, from Semiotext(e), Book of Mutter, Appendix Project, and the feminist cult classic, Heroines. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through resistance and duration.
Photo credit: Carolyne Loreé Teston
Alicia Kennedy is the author of On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites and the bestselling No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating. She publishes the From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy newsletter and the digital magazine Tomato Tomato, and her byline can be found in many outlets.
I am a longtime reader and admirer of the work of Kate Zambreno. From Heroines to Drifts to To Write As If Already Dead—and everything in between—to their latest book Foam (out September 15), their work has traversed and transcended boundaries between fiction and nonfiction in surprising ways. Their commitment to truth-telling about the material conditions of writing, of mothering, and and of simply living in precarious times has been a beacon.
Foam continues to blur lines between not just fiction and nonfiction, but the domestic and the professional as well as persona, making it an extraordinary reading experience. We will discuss this book as well as the rest of their books, the writing life, and more.
From the Desk members join free using the code here. Members will also receive access to the full recording as part of the Salon Series archive.
WHEN
Sunday, September 20
2 p.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom
A link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event. Please use the email address at which you’d like to receive the communication.
WHO
Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including, from Semiotext(e), Book of Mutter, Appendix Project, and the feminist cult classic, Heroines. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through resistance and duration.
Photo credit: Carolyne Loreé Teston
Alicia Kennedy is the author of On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites and the bestselling No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating. She publishes the From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy newsletter and the digital magazine Tomato Tomato, and her byline can be found in many outlets.