I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
Kate ZambrenoI think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.
Kate ZambrenoMy rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
Kate ZambrenoI think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.
Kate Zambreno