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“The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.”

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Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambreno is an American writer born in 1977. Her works are known for their unique literary style and profound exploration of female experience. more

“I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.”

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“I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.”

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“The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.”

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“I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.”

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“I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.”

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