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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...

Feature

January 2018

Accumulations (Appendix F)

Kate Zambreno

Feature

January 2018

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

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To lower extremities complicating coronary artery Disease contusions & abrasions on forehead Nose head behind ear neck abdomen buttock Elbow thigh knee foot toe w/ hæmorrhage On rib area & leg blunt force injuries resulted In extensive muscle damage muscle necrosis & Rhabdomyolysis electrolyte disturbances primarily Hyperkalæmia elevated blood potassium level & Metabolic acidosis occurs within hours of muscle Damage massive sodium and water shifts occur re – sulting in hypovolemic shock & casodilatation And later acute renal failure the deceased’s un – derlying coronary artery disease would compromise Ability to tolerate electrolyte & fluid abnormalities Underlying malnutrition so it’s likely dehydration Only exacerbated the effects of muscle damage Mere bones of desolation now things   — my love restores   False Communiqué One civilian detainee was found Unresponsive with a ligature Or plastic band around my cock A bottle ring pops pigeon death In cell behaviour health unit joint Task force Guantanamo 2200 hours When the ligature gets cut I come Without remorse on the source Of light his electric body being Banished to mulch organic comp – osition capital dividing luminous Flux a rumour a burden of labour Having fallen away from the tend – ency of profit to rise and fall w/ The quality of radiance his cock The way any man will use my hands Like vitreous fluid his urine emits So diffused a glow no needle-like Beam thru pores of junk no evi – dence of trauma resuscitation Efforts begging immediate organ – isation to turn blood back To military cargo my skin Now shares  — with a tank

Contributor

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

feature

March 2013

Kate Zambreno

feature

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

February 2011

Interview with Manfredi Beninati

Lowenna Waters

Interview

February 2011

Time, memory, the landscape of the mind, manifestation and metamorphosis, resurgence and collapse and the crisp crust of Sicilian...

Interview

Issue No. 17

Interview with George Saunders

Aidan Ryan

Interview

Issue No. 17

The American short story writer George Saunders has the kind of reputation that makes one hesitate before typing his...

fiction

February 2014

Coral

R. B. Pillay

fiction

February 2014

Early one morning, you wake up with the smell of burnt sheets in your nose, the sheets that you...

 

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