EVENTS

Kepler's Book Store
May, 2009
Blogs on Broken Colors, Jane Gardam, and Elena Ferrante

Kepler's Book Store
May 17, 2009
BROKEN COLORS to be one of the featured books at the Kepler's Spring Book Club Mixer
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA

Chelsea Arts Club
April 18, 2009
Saturday Artist's Lunch with Michele Zackheim
A reading from Broken Colors by Kika Markham, Corin Redgrave, and Bill Bingham
Booking, members only: 020.7376.3311 - £9.50
143 Old Church Street
London SW3 6EB

Daunt Books
April 20, 2009 @​ 7:00
83 Marylebone High Street
London, W1U 4QW, United Kingdom
+44 20 72242295
Tickets: £5 (with wine), available to purchase in the Marylebone shop or by phone/​email with a credit card (they don’t reserve)

BROKEN COLORS to be released in the UK, March 12, 2009

COLORI SPEZZATI released in Italy

Thursday, June 12 at 6:30pm,THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING – Europa Editions, founded in 2005, is dedicated to bringing fresh voices to the American literary market and has already established itself as one of the country’s most prestigious publishing houses. Publisher Kent Carroll will discuss the challenges of publishing literary fiction with Ann Goldstein, a New Yorker editor, and translator of The Days of Abandonment, and Michele Zackheim, author of Broken Colors, cited by Library Journal as "…a beautiful novel, sometimes comic and always wise.”


BROKEN COLORS, a Book Sense choice.


The Metaphoric Paintbrush, an essay written for Powells.com is now available on-line. Please click on the link in the left hand column.

An essay written for Discover Magazine's February-March issue, Children of a Lesser God, about the family of Albert Einstein, is now available on-line.

Poetry, PEN, and Flora Brovina, an essay written for RedRoom.com. Please click on the link in the left hand column.

READINGS IN 2007

Three Lives & Co.
New York City

Community Book Store
Brooklyn, NY

Black Oak Books
Berkeley, CA

Alameda Free Library
Alameda, CA

Mrs. Dalloway's
Berkeley, CA

Garcia Street Books
Santa Fe, NM

Left Bank Books
St. Louis, MO

Women & Children First
Chicago, IL

I loved Broken Colors, it went into my heart and stayed there.
—Vanessa Redgrave

A wonderful love story, over the years and across worlds – about a woman and her art. Zackheim understands both from lived experience and writes about them with profound passion and compassion.
–Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art.

I loved the way she describes the process of making art, a rarity in literature.
–Joyce Kozloff

A profoundly original,
beautifully written
work, so emotionally
accurate that it tears
at the heart. I read
it without stopping.
—Gerald Stern

This is a beautiful novel, sometimes comic and always wise. Visual artist Zackheim … imbues the novel with her deep knowledge of the art world, from techniques to agents to the world of galleries.
—Library Journal

With soaring Lyricism, Zackheim limns an exquisitely haunting portrait of an indelibly scarred, yet deeply passionate woman.
—Booklist

Zackheim delivers
the epic life of
a woman whose
art and survival
become ever more
tightly bound with
the passing years.
—Publishers Weekly

BROKEN COLORS had all the thrills and sensuality and obsessiveness and excitement and pathos and struggle of the artist's life. and more so, as the artist is female.
–Helene Aylon

Emotional, passionate, and introspective, Broken Colors is the one-of-a-kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey.
–The Midwest Book Review. 02/​2008, The Fiction Shelf