Kate Zambreno's Reading List

"I am currently reading Magda Szabo's "The Door," and it's all I can think about. It's like I'm living in that claustrophobic dyad between two women in a Hungarian village."

"Probably revealing that I devoured the romances when I was too young to understand them — "Gone With the Wind," "Wuthering Heights.""

"My oldest also loves being read Tove Jansson's "The Summer Book," one of my favorites."

""Die, My Love" by the Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz recently wrecked me — her narrator is almost ecstatic with misery at her domestic claustrophobia with a new baby."

"And as a companion, Olga Ravn's "My Work.""