Screen Tests
Stories and Other Writing

We have the same taste in artists so I enjoyed reading her quips about those people but sometimes her voice as a writer reads like a 2010 tumblr text post......more

As always, Kate Zambreno delivers a witty, creative, funny, smart, innovative, and insightful product. Although this book is a bit of a hodgepodge of different types of writing, and sometimes drips with apparently unwarranted self-pity, it’s filled with interesting ideas about gender, popular cultur......more

I am a pretty big fan of Zambreno. I read what she writes, I see myself in it, I see myself writing like her, I feel like I could read her writing about the process of unclogging a drain and find it brilliant. That being said, I didn’t *love* “Screen Tests”. The book is made up of essays, and the sc......more

I don’t know. There were some fragments that I really enjoyed (the trifecta of Tallulah Bankhead / Heiress / Louise Brooks in a Mint Green Housecoat was a really interesting examination of like fame, femininity, and aging). But for the most part, I just felt like I was reading a journal that someone......more

Screen Tests is an artfully poised lineup of quasi-Warholian novels and films. Kate Zambreno makes a strong case for each of these put-upon female artists, while the collection is also a shimmering delight in and of itself.......more