Appendix Project

"But still it interests me"—so writes Kate Zambreno in Appendix Project, a powerful, necessary, and defiantly untimely defense of what Richard Howard, translating Roland Barthes, called continuance. By way of the books she persists in reading and rereading, the mother whom she is still mourning, the questions she keeps on asking, rephrasing, and finding new ways of asking, Zambreno claims her right to stay with what is not yet exhausted. This is a book about how things—interests, attachments, experiences, projects—don't finish; in Zambreno's hands, this means it is also a book about openness.

Kate Briggs

I love these talks, these essays set in the specificity of a day, this generous thinking about photography, sleep, time. As much a form of artful reading as of writing, Zambreno makes an exhibition of the text, a space you can walk through with her, inhabited like a conversation. I am grateful for the chance to mark time with this writer, to move through the world of the appendices with this original and surprising thinker.

T. Clutch Fleischmann

...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.'

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

…slim but packs a hefty intellectual punch

Book Riot

Appendix Project is 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

The Millions

A revelatory project of exclamation and understanding.

Los Angeles Review of Books

Kate 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.

Paris Review