In Search of Lost Time and Space in Kate Zambreno’s “The Light Room” – Chicago Review of Books

In Search of Lost Time and Space in Kate Zambreno’s “The Light Room” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] A novel Kate Zambreno reads during the first year of the pandemic opens with a description of an apartment walled by windows on all sides. The novel’s protagonist has recently separated from her husband, and she takes this sun-struck apartment for her three-year-old-daughter. Zambreno, a Guggenheim fellow, professor of writing at Columbia University, and … Read more

Cover Reveal: A SCATTER OF LIGHT by Malinda Lo

Cover Reveal: A SCATTER OF LIGHT by Malinda Lo

[ad_1] Today we’re revealing the cover for Malinda Lo’s A Scatter of Light–AND giving you a sneak peek interview with the author! Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years … Read more

Realism and Surrealism in “Leonora in the Morning Light” – Chicago Review of Books

Realism and Surrealism in “Leonora in the Morning Light” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The surrealist painter Leonora Carrington is enjoying a renaissance of late, with renewed interest in both her visual art and literary work. The last few years have seen the publication of The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Dorothy Press), the memoir Down Below (New York Review Books), and, just this January, Carrington’s masterpiece The … Read more