Published in 2019
304 pages
Kate Zambreno is the author of the novels Green Girl and O Fallen Angel. She is also the author of Heroines and Book of Mutter, a collection of talks and essays, The Appendix Project, and a collection of stories and other writing, Screen Tests. She teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.
What is this book about?
A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness of life as a woman and writer, on fame and failure, aging and art, from the acclaimed author of Heroines, Green Girl, and O Fallen Angel.
In the first half of Kate Zambreno’s astoundingly original collection Screen Tests, the narrator regales us with incisive and witty swatches from a life lived inside a brilliant mind, meditating on aging and vanity, fame and failure, writing and writers, along with portraits of everyone from Susan Sontag to Amal Clooney, Maurice Blanchot to Louise Brooks. The series of essays that follow, on figures central to Zambreno’s thinking, including Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, and Barbara Loden, are manifestos about art that ingeniously intersect and chime with the stories that came before them.
