Animal Stories

Kate Zambreno

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English

Transit Books
30 October 2025

Literature: history & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory; Animals & society; Wildlife: general interest

Series: Undelivered Lectures

From a writer who has 'invented a new form' (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.

Animal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno's visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where one stark tree 'seems to be the stage design for a simian production of Waiting for Godot'. But who are the players and who is the audience, and can they recognise each other?

What follows is a series of reports from the deep strangeness of the zoo, a space that is 'more often than not deeply sad, an odd choice for regular pilgrimages of fun'. Amid excursions with their young children, Zambreno turns to Garry Winogrand's photographs and John Berger's writings on animals, reshaping the spectator as the subject to decode our complex 'zoo feelings'

what we project, and what we refuse to see. Then, in the 'Kafka system' that dovetails with these zoo studies, Zambreno thinks through the notebooks and animal stories of a writer known for playing at the threshold between species, continuing their investigation into the false divide between human and animal.

Drawing on forms including reports, essays, journals, and stories, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and the ones we occupy ourselves.

By: Kate Zambreno
Imprint: Transit Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9798893380200
Series: Undelivered Lectures
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 30 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kate Zambreno 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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Praise for Kate Zambreno: “Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.”—Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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