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Episode #9: To Write As If Already Dead, by Kate Zambreno


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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD by Kate Zambreno, and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss DUCKS by Kate Beaton. 

Books mentioned: 

  • To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
  • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert
  • Drifts by Kate Zambreno
  • Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
  • The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
  • A Barthes Reader edited by Susan Sontag
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
  • All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett, David Boyd
  • Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett, David Boyd
  • Written Lives by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
  • The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
  • A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain
  • Indelicacy by Amina Cain
  • The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
  • Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
  • 3 Streets by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
  • Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
  • Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
  • Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
  • One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
  • The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
  • Ducks by Kate Beaton

Check out other relevant links in our blogpost.

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