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Sofia Montrone

Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedApril 26, 2021April 25, 2021

Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…

“My fantasy of a memoir about nothing”: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedJuly 17, 2020October 6, 2020

Kate Zambreno’s latest work of autofiction, Drifts, is a novel about the process of writing a novel, or, at least, the process of thinking about…

Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedApril 17, 2020April 20, 2020
  • 2 Comments on Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus

Severance / Ling Ma / Picador, 05/2019 – $17 (Paperback) The routine has become automatic. In the mornings I stand bleary-eyed at the counter and…

Endnotes on Pale Fire

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedNovember 6, 2018

  Azure adj.    blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…

Anatomy of Absence 

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedMarch 25, 2018May 24, 2022
  • 1 Comment on Anatomy of Absence 

Photo by Brad Javernick of Home Oomph There was a hole at the table where her son used to be. Once he had sat across…

Affettuoso (After Caravaggio)

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedNovember 5, 2017March 25, 2018

Watcher – this, your face pink-cheeked with abandon. This your hidden, thrumming hand. This, your wine-shadowed longing draped over his shoulders, laid flush against the…

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