Appendix Project

In the tradition of the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Appendix Project collects 11 talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter . Zambreno’s most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date.

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.

Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently The Light Room , a meditation on art and care, published in the UK by Corsair, along with a reissue of their seminal text Heroines . Tone , a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, was recently published by Columbia University Press. Forthcoming is Animal Studies , a book of zoos and Kafka, as part of the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books. They are a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Book of Mutter and its companion text of lectures, Appendix Project , are being reissued together by Prototype. Zambreno is at work on a series of books, Realisms , circling around precarity and interiors.