Event Description
Join Porter Square Books: Boston Edition for a celebration and exploration of the work of Kate Zambreno. The Kate Zambreno Symposium is a gathering of readers, critics, writers, & scholars featuring presentations of essays on Zambreno’s work and a conversation between the presenters and the audience.
The event will also be livestreamed via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the virtual event.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
Through novels, essays, collaborative projects, and works that puncture and protrude through the usual borders between genres, Kate Zambreno has cultivated a literary landscape all their own. As different as their projects can be from each other, one always knows that one is reading a Kate Zambreno book. Whether they're writing about the zoo, Hervé Guibert, visual art, their own life, the neglected women of modernism, or anything else, Zambreno has a way of turning our gaze to see something that was always nearby but somehow just out of view.
Essays will be presented from 6PM-7PM. The conversation between Kate Zambreno & the presenters and a Q&A with presenters and audience members will be from 7PM-8PM. A signing will follow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including, most recently, Animal Stories, as well as The Light Room, To Write As if Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert, Drifts, and Book of Mutter. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in Fall 2026 and Fall 2027 are two novels of interiors and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. Against Nonfiction, based on a series of lectures given at Columbia University in Spring 2025, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in Spring 2027. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through refusal, duration, and being together.
This class will take place in-person at our Center for Creative Writing in Boston's Seaport neighborhood.
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Space Accessibility:
Our space is ADA accessible with automatic door openers, ADA-compliant restrooms, desk and table spacing, braille signage, and elevator. Our classrooms can be equipped with ALS for hard of hearing individuals. We cannot guarantee a scent-free environment. For more accessibility requests, please contact our Operations team at [email protected] or (617) 695-0075.