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Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author most recently of Drifts (Riverhead) and To Write As If Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert (Columbia University Press). Forthcoming in Summer 2023 from Riverhead is The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, as well as Tone, a collaboration with Sofia Samatar, from Columbia University Press in early 2024. ‘Insekt’ is part of an in-progress work of fiction, Realisms. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Insekt or large verminous thing

Fiction

September 2022

Kate Zambreno

Fiction

September 2022

Around dusk one evening in March, I went out back to the small garage, and switched on my small square of artificial light at...

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January 2018

Accumulations (Appendix F)

Kate Zambreno

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January 2018

I’ve been keeping a mental list of all the pieces of art that I’ve nursed Leo in front of...

THREE DAYS   so it’s like, we shouldn’t press our cheeks together like we think / we know because say i saw pen on my sock this morning i looked and finally let some noise pass through lodge / into my ledgers, take heart there & i thought that there was something in the words it slipped down but then all of this   my padded fingers slip on to the handles swing above us we are shifted i mean shifting through the undergrowth & i am   i have fallen over i slipped #~#~# yeah but it’s fucking cheap they’re all so frightened of him and i want some lemon drizzle & the pub & you   HERE east oxford smells like cress now burnt rubber snakes its way up st clements smokes out the morning from my eyes & now the day is rotten limes in the way i speak to you, love   (####take heart, i never hit the right keys))   so the notebook bloomed when my cola leaked & i must wait for it to dry you try to make sense of it, the brown from the red, i mean but i can’t see that you’re right all my thoughts come in full sentences i am trying to pretend they do not three weeks in muck &   three days away from you they have nothing to do with what i mean? but the radio, what men say, #hahaha somebody lives there & kicks the ticker when they should edit, circle me deeper they only know grammar, & even when you are waiting we slip on my surfaces, talk for days about how i should learn to eat again with half a broken jaw & you will be here when i sleep, three days from now   & the days past   & i am always a gutted thing with hands too cold still to work the phone                             POETA EX MACHINA for Veronica Forrest-Thomson   my voice makes the machine work the tape clicks inside but it’s just ether now   if a

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August 2014

Kate Zambreno

Contributor

August 2014

Kate Zambreno is the author most recently of Drifts (Riverhead) and To Write As If Already Dead, a study...

Heroines

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March 2013

Kate Zambreno

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March 2013

I am beginning to realise that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like...

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Interview

October 2013

Interview with Nick Goss

James Cahill

Interview

October 2013

Nick Goss has emerged in recent years as one of the UK’s most feted young painters. Evoking indistinct places...

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February 2011

Red Shirts in Thailand

Sam Brown

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February 2011

The closest I had ever come to a protest was in 2003, in Bangkok, when I tried and failed...

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November 2014

The Last Redoubt

Scott Esposito

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November 2014

As they say of politics, I have found essay-writing to be the art of the possible. Certain work can...

 

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