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‘In a fog I rewrote and found my voice again – and who I was.’ Talking to playwright, activist and memoirist Karen Malpede Karen Malpede’s new release Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths is many things. It’s a theatre memoir in the cultural avant-garde of downtown New York, a grief essay,…

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‘In a fog I rewrote and found my voice again – and who I was.’ Talking to playwright, activist and memoirist Karen Malpede Karen Malpede’s new release Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths is many things. It’s a theatre memoir in the cultural avant-garde of downtown New York, a grief essay, a polemic about cancer treatment and a love story - of Karen and her actor/producer husband George Bartenieff. But when she first began writing it, she thought it had defeated her. I wrote a draft of the first chapter soon after George died. https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/in-a-fog-i-rewrote-and-found-my-voice-again-and-who-i-was-talking-to-playwright-activist-and-memoirist-karen-malpede/