Michele Filgate is an independent bookseller and a freelance writer. Her writing has appeared in O,The Oprah Magazine, The Star Tribune, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

‘HEROINES’

In Heroines, Kate Zambreno blends memoir with literary criticism to wrestle with her role as a wife and a follower of modernist female writers like Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys, and Jane Bowles. She talks to Michele Filgate about diaries, sexism, and “unsympathetic characters.”