The Light Room: On Art and Care

Now, Zambreno offers her most profound & affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, & the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks & green spaces, Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby & a small child, but also small & transcendent moments of beauty & joy. 

Inspired by writers & artists ranging from Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, Yūko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community & the commons, & an ecstatic engagement with the living world. How will our memories, & our children’s, be affected by this time of profound disconnection? What does it mean to bring new life, & new work, into this moment of precarity & crisis? In The Light Room, Kate Zambreno offers a vision of how to live in ways that move away from disenchantment, & toward light & possibility.

Kate Zambreno is also the author of two novels & three books of nonfiction. She lives in New York & teaches writing at Columbia University & Sarah Lawrence College.