There are three elements to the photograph. There is the grocery cart in the background, the white Renault hatchback in the foreground, and then at center there is the reclusive philosopher who explored literature’s impossibility. 

For a long time we wanted to get a second dog. Then we had a baby, and I had to give up this desire for a while.

For a long time I worked on an essay about a fairly obscure American film made in the seventies by an actress, the only film she directed, which she starred in herself, an essay that I published in a small journal and thought perhaps I would turn into a book.

Marilyn Minter was a photography student at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, in 1969. 

A fictive essay on the novelist, painter—and creator of Moomins—Tove Jansson.

“She kept on trying to find these images of the paintings on her desktop and then chose not to look at the paintings or rather at the photographs of the paintings anymore. She needed to go outside.”

“What you need to understand is how a woman can become a piece of furniture,” writes Kate Zambreno in her meditation on Maria Judite de Carvalho’s only novel, ‘Empty Wardrobes.’

In an excerpt from her new book ‘To Write As If Already Dead,’ Kate Zambreno considers the diaristic fictions of Hervé Guibert.