19
May
Join an exclusive Book Talk with author Kate Zambreno about their magnificent work, *Heroines*. Zambreno will be interviewed by writer Maria Kager.
Book Talk: Kate Zambreno
With Heroines, Kate Zambreno wrote a furious, fragmented, brilliant, and irresistible book. We welcome them to ILFU's headquarters for an exclusive Book Talk about this magnificent work. Zambreno will be interviewed by writer Maria Kager.
About Heroines
In 2009, writer and professor Kate Zambreno started a blog called Frances Farmer is My Sister, on which they researched and finally gave a voice to their beloved modernist female writers. It grew into a vibrant online community, and eventually into this book. Heroines features writers who were long known only as muses to male writers and whose work and contributions to the work of those men were often obscured and forgotten. It is a razor-sharp literary manifesto featuring, among others, Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Featuring:
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books, including Green Girl (2011), Screen Tests (2019), Drang (2022, translated by Nicolette Hoekmeijer), and most recently, Heroines. Their work has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. They received a Guggenheim Fellowship and teach at Columbia University.
Maria Kager (Interviewer)
Maria Kager (1978) is a writer and literary scholar. She grew up in Haarlem, earned her PhD in literary studies at Rutgers University in the US, and lives in Amsterdam. In 2024, she debuted with The Extraordinarily Successful Upbringing of Frida Wolf, with which she won the Bronze Owl of that year. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Tirade, De Gids, Hard//Hoofd, and De Groene Amsterdammer.
Praise for Heroines
"Heroines reads with an almost physical urgency, as though written in a hot, hot heat."
"With equal parts unabashed pathos and exceptional intelligence, Heroines foregrounds female subjectivity to produce an impressive and original work that examines the suppression of various female modernists in relation to Zambreno's own complicated position as a writer and a wife.”
"It's kind of a book of utterances... it's beautiful and I love it."
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