Appendix Project

'Kate Zambrenos Appendix Project and Book of Mutter are meditations on grief, motherhood, and memory alongside and through Roland Barthess Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary. These are also books about reading and seeing. To enter them is to be in the company of a writer with a tremendous capacity and gift for questioning, thinking, and feeling. These are extraordinary works.' Christina Sharpe Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambrenos Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, Zambrenos book on her mother that took her over a decade to write. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of her childs life, contain Zambrenos most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date. In *Appendix Project *Zambreno thinks through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Duras, Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, and more.