{"product_id":"appendix-project-isbn-9781635900767","title":"Appendix Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I came up with the idea of writing these notes, or talks, out of a primary desire to not read from \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e, and instead to keep gesturing to its incompleteness and ongoingness, which connects, for me, to the fragmentary project of literature, and what I long for in writing.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eAppendix Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's \u003ci\u003eAppendix Project\u003c\/i\u003e collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e, Zambreno's book on her mother that took her over a decade to write. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of her child's life, contain Zambreno's most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date. In \u003ci\u003eAppendix Project\u003c\/i\u003e Zambreno thinks through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Duras, Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e...this collection of 11 talks and essays reveals her anew as a master of the experimental lyric essay....the calm inquiry, wise voice, and poignant urgency behind every sentence will coalesce into a deeply reflective meditation on art, loss, and how 'time makes the intensity of mourning pass—and yet, nothing is soothed.'—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e…slim but packs a hefty intellectual punch\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix Project \u003c\/i\u003eis a genre-crossing work about grief, time, memory, and the maternal, which is also a work about writing itself—Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2019 Book Preview\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revelatory project of exclamation and understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Zambreno's oeuvre is not just a series of books but a body of thought, an interrupted exhortation on incompleteness and the intersections of life, death, time, memory, and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e—Kate Zambreno is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGreen Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the nonfiction \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by Semiotexte(e)).","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304770621669,"sku":"NP9781635900767","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635900767.jpg?v=1767721692","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/appendix-project-isbn-9781635900767","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}