andrea kleine

Calf, a novel

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"a breathtaking book…This one will stick with you." -- BOOK RIOT

“Dread stalks every page, and the result is unsettling, scary, and often brilliant. For readers looking for a sharp, twisted narrative, this is a keeper." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW & PICK OF THE WEEK

"In matching the alienation of the Reagan ’80s with the shocking violence that touched her own young life, Kleine has created a dark and memorable novel bound to upend a reader’s expectations." -- THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

"This novel is smart, taut, and finely woven. Using actual historic events as a point of departure, Andrea twists her own narrative in a voice that is gripping and original. She masters story, character, and action, and we wind up thinking about big ideas after we’re done reading. What more do you want from a novel?" -- THE RUMPUS: Anna March

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A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Writer to Watch" & "Big Indie Book" for Fall

My Dinner with Andrea: the piece formerly known as Torture Playlist

"As its title suggests, “My Dinner with Andrea: The Piece Formerly Known as Torture Playlist” began as a response to the C.I.A.’s use of music as torture but morphed into something closer to the talky 1981 film “My Dinner with André.” Performance pieces by the smart, self-aware Kleine, who is also a novelist, tend to be self-reflexive, questioning their own purpose." -- The New Yorker

"Ms. Kleine, who is also a novelist, uses that film’s conversational structure to discuss the challenges of making a dance piece about torture and, in frustration, wonders “how to make anything at all.” With debate about torture once again in daily headlines, and artists asking how to engage in uncharted political waters, those questions resonate." -- The New York Times

Anya Liftig In Conversation with Andrea Kleine -- Critical Correspondence

My Conversation with Andrea -- Incident Magazine

Screening Room, or, The Return of Andrea Kleine (as revealed through a re-enactment of a 1977 television program about a 'long and baffling' film by Yvonne Rainer)

"The work itself is not unlike the title, a realm of alternate routes and nested stories, running its own kind of elaborate course. And though it’s largely autobiographical, it feels bigger: the story of anyone who has chosen one path and switched to another, anyone nomadic, anyone about whom the question “What is she up to these days?” has been asked. In other words, most of us." -- The New York Times

Interview on A Bras Le Corps (in French and English)

Bachtrack: "Idiom Surfing" by Ivan Talijancic

Clyde Fitch Report: "The Death of the Avant-Garde and Other Urban Legends" by Tim Cusack

Culturebot feature

New York Times Starred Listing

New York Times Fall Arts Preview

The New Yorker: Goings on About Town

Artforum fall arts preview