Tag: zadie smith
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith
This didn’t work for me at all.
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“The fall brought me no kudos and no respect, but it did cure me of the habit of writing funeral speeches.”
Zadie Smith writes in the New Yorker about being (and having) a teenager. I have one myself and they’re having a rough time right now. Some of this brought comfort: Watching girls gather outside the multiplexes this past summer, choosing between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” I thought, Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Brittle, impossible…
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Yes, I am yet another MFA Bro who loves David Foster Wallace.
Molly McGhee in LitHub talking about ‘dick lit’, including Wallace, Vonnegut, and Zadie Smith (trust me, it works): In these two years guns were held in my face, hands were wrapped around my throat, and two separate men broke the windows of my house in an attempt get in: one of them to see my…
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
This was impossible to put down. The characters leap off the page, the writing is filled with energy and charm. Loved it.