THE TEN GREATEST ESSAYS, EVER
Kate Zambreno
David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (from Vintage, 1991)
Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (from Graywolf Press, 2004)
Jenny Zhang, “Hags” (from Guillotine)
Sofia Samatar, “Skin Feeling” (from The New Inquiry)
Clutch Fleischmann, “Spill Split” (from PEN America)
Abbas Kiarostami, “Close-Up” (film distributed by Celluloid Dreams, 1990)
Bhanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue (from Nightboat Books, 2015)
Chantal Akerman, “News from Home” (from 1977)
Moyra Davey, Burn the Diaries (from ICA, University of Pennsylvania/Museum Moderner Kunst/Dancing Foxes Press, 2014)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (from University of California Press, 2009)
About Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is author of the novels Green Girl and O Fallen Angel (both Harper Perennial) and of Heroines and Book of Mutter (both Semiotexte(e)’s Native Agents). The Appendix Project, a collection of talks and essays, and Screen Tests, a collection of stories and essays, are forthcoming in 2019. Zambreno is at work on a series of novels exploring time, memory, and the persistence of art. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the writing program at Columbia University.