But no worries, I’m here to save the day. You’re probably very confused by that header I’ve put above this. Where the women writers of the 1900s meet one modern woman: Kate Zambreno. It took actually cracking open the book and digging deep into the universes created by Zambreno for me to understand what was actually happening here. I thought it was feminist-based because of the various women writers depicted on the cover, but I was also confused because this was classified as creative nonfiction.
Now I didn’t read anything about this book particularly before starting it and it was the first of the stack of Zambreno books I had to get through. And thus I was immediately curious about her body of work and downloaded almost all of her books for a rainy day. As in she is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow for Nonfiction and has taught at both the writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University-two very good writing programs. It was stumbling upon Zambreno’s website and admiring her haircut (I really loved the blunt bags she had as her picture, I’m a sucker for blunt bangs) then realizing she’s actually a very established writer. I had never heard of this book or even of Kate Zambreno before until I joined literary Twitter as a somewhat active citizen.
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