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    Foam

    Part of Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

    Author Kate Zambreno
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    $17.95 US
    The MIT Press | Semiotext(e)
    5-3/8"W x 8"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Oct 13, 2026 | 240 Pages | 9781635902846
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    A strange and speculative text from one of the most innovative writers of their generation.

    I am still transitioning, but I am unsure into what.

    Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva Hesse and other soft sculpture, these are speculative art essays and textures, a document of precarity and slippery time—mischievous, moody, estranged—a masterwork of tone and atmosphere.
    Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including, from Semiotext(e), Book of Mutter, Appendix Project, and the feminist cult classic, Heroines. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through resistance and duration.
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    A strange and speculative text from one of the most innovative writers of their generation.

    I am still transitioning, but I am unsure into what.

    Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva Hesse and other soft sculpture, these are speculative art essays and textures, a document of precarity and slippery time—mischievous, moody, estranged—a masterwork of tone and atmosphere.

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    Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including, from Semiotext(e), Book of Mutter, Appendix Project, and the feminist cult classic, Heroines. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through resistance and duration.
    Kate Zambreno View titles by Kate Zambreno

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