Hawthornden Brooklyn in Conversation & Transit Books present: Kate Zambreno

Published as part of Transit Books' Undelivered Lectures series, Kate Zambreno's Animal Stories is comprised of a series of reports from the deep strangeness of the zoo, followed by playful meditations on Kafka's animal stories—an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, and the relationship between human and animal. They will discuss their book with Brooklyn author and NBCC Awards finalist Zito Madu.

Taylor & Co. Books will have the authors' books available for sale.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Space is limited.

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Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities. Transit authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Translation Prize, and have been finalists for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the National Translation Award, and more.

Zito Madu is a Nigerian-American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of the surrealist memoir The Minotaur at Calle Lanza, a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle award for Autobiography in 2024.

Kate Zambreno is the author most recently of Drifts; To Write As If Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert; The Light Room; and a collaborative study on tone in literature with Sofia Samatar. They live in Brooklyn with their two children and their partner, John Vincler. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, they are a PhD candidate in performance studies at NYU.

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