The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“She [Mary Maclane] is almost always referred to as “confessional.” She has been referred to, several times, as the first blogger. Whereas her writing does not confess much - it is much more spiritual memoir than anything, or perhaps something akin to a mystic’s courtly love, directed at the self. I am wondering what distinguishes writing as confessional… I keep… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?” — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
