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'Kate Zambreno’s Appendix Project and Book of Mutter are meditations on grief, motherhood, and memory alongside and through Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary. These are also books about reading and seeing. To enter them is to be in the company of a writer with a tremendous capacity and gift for questioning, thinking, and feeling. These are extraordinary works.' – Christina Sharpe Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno’s Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, Zambreno’s book on her mother that took her over a decade to write. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of her child’s life, contain Zambreno’s most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date. In *Appendix Project *Zambreno thinks through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Duras, Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, and more.

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Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently the novel Drifts (Riverhead), a study of Hervé Guibert, To Write As If Already Dead (Columbia University Press), and The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, (Riverhead and Corsair). Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, is recently published from Columbia University Press. Their fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more. Their books have or will be translated into Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Turkish and Arabic. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Zambreno is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Animal Stories, a book on zoos and Kafka, is forthcoming through the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books in Faautumnautull 2025. They live in Brooklyn with their partner, John, their two children, and their dog, Genet.

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