Blogs about: Zadie Smith

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Is It Too Soon to Be Callously Objective about Infinite Summer?2 comments

fictionadvocate wrote 1 day ago: At the risk of inciting DFW’s … more →

Tags: dfw, Easy There James Wood, fighting words, New Yorker, speaking ill of the dead

Periodical: The Believer

Paul wrote 1 week ago: A few years ago I was visiting my friend Roman.  He asked me if I read The Believer.  I told him I h … more →

Tags: BritLit, nick hornby, Funny ha ha, David Foster Wallace, funny strange, essays, Music, McSweeney's, Christian Bok

My Someone Once Told me snap & why I *heart* Zadie Smith

Alexandra Sheppard wrote 2 weeks ago: A few months ago I had my photo taken by the lovely Mario for his photo project Someone Once Told M … more →

Tags: 1, Photo, someone once told me

Travel-Writing The New World1 comment

Dylan Byers wrote 2 weeks ago: Pico Iyer has written a brilliant but incomplete essay in this summer’s Lapham’s Quarter … more →

Tags: Literature, Travel, Lapham's Quarterly, Multiculturalism, pico iyer, post-colonialism, Travel Writing

41. "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003"3

Eli wrote 3 weeks ago: Zadie Smith edits this one. It showed me the difference an editor makes in anthologies like this. In … more →

Tags: 2009 books, author of color, author of European descent, Genre: Short stories, Library Books, Short Story, 350-399 pages

On Michelle Obama's Bookshelf: "Life of Pi" and "White Teeth"3 comments

Qiana wrote 3 weeks ago: According to a senior White House aide, Michelle Obama and daughter, Malia, recently finished rea … more →

Tags: Fiction, Michelle Obama, The First Daughters, Yann Martel

White Teeth, Perdido Street Station, and Last Evenings on Earth3 comments

ed biblioklept wrote 1 month ago: And so well with the help of Jenny Sterlin’s narration and my handy-dandy portable mp3-playin … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reviews, Audiobooks, China Mieville, last evenings on earth, perdido street station, roberto bolaño, Summer Reading

Hotlanta and Other Things

choward wrote 1 month ago: Dave Eggers is hands down my favorite living writer*, who somehow manages to capture so adroitly the … more →

Tags: Little Choward on the Prairie, Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, Away we go, McSweeney's

Winners of the Orange Prize for Women's Fiction

toniwhitmont wrote 1 month ago: Has anyone out there read An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay? Kay has just picked up the Orange Awa … more →

Tags: Fiction, Literary Prizes, An Equal Stillness, Francesca Kay, Orange Award for New Writers, Orange Prize for Fiction, Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, Home

The demise of literary letters1 comment

yasminsul wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been reading some of George Orwell’s letters lately (I do read other authors, hones … more →

Tags: English Literature, Daddy-long-legs, Emails, jean webster, literary letters, Orwell

White Teeth

annotationnation wrote 1 month ago: book by Zadie Smith annotation by Diane Sherlock The best thing about Zadie Smith’s first novel is … more →

Tags: Annotation, Diane Sherlock, White Teeth

Clancy Martin

Weston Cutter wrote 1 month ago:             It’s been two years since McSweeney’s 23 came out—which I’d argue stro … more →

Tags: Fiction, Benjamin Kunkel, Clancy Martin, how to sell, Jonathan Franzen, McSweeney's, New York Tyrant, Sam Lipsyte

Oranges Or Lemons?9 comments

savidgereads wrote 1 month ago: So it starts, yes I am all finished with the utterly superb thriller/crime novel (which I will revie … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sarah Waters, Marilynne Robinson, Orange Prize, Deirdre Madden, Samatha Hunt, ellen feldman, Kamila Shamsie

Zadie Smith, Salut!10 comments

labiamajora wrote 2 months ago: I finally finished reading Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. My family was growing irritable having it … more →

Tags: Black Feminism, Bob Marley, On Beauty, rembrandt, womanism

YouTube is Radio, etc.

butttub wrote 2 months ago: I put together a concert for Ghost Island! Actually, no I went on YouTube and picked videos with sin … more →

Tags: New Media, old media, Science, The ultimately bleak future of a machine dominated worl, Girls, liz isenberg, Science Fiction, Pornography, Pork

On Beauty

Lindsay wrote 2 months ago: This isn’t going to be a real post. Not really. I’ve started reading “On Beauty … more →

Tags: Personal, Books, Tidbits, Book Reviews, identity, Neurosis, Quotes

Remainder by Tom McCarthy (Part 1)

monkeyswedding wrote 2 months ago: Occasionally one finds that their various reading coincides so naturally that they begin to start sl … more →

Tags: Tom McCarthy, New Yorker, New York Review of Books

The Book of Other People [edited by Zadie Smith] (2007)1 comment

Paul wrote 2 months ago: SOUNDTRACK: PEARL JAM-Vs. (1993). Ten was a solid record, and although it had diversity within it, o … more →

Tags: nick hornby, Funny ha ha, Unreliable narrator, funny strange, McSweeney's, Dave Eggers, Meta, George Saunders, Set in New Jersey!

On Beauty - and the culture wars

sarahoims390 wrote 3 months ago: Art effects us by our training, our upbringing.  What art is, how we interpret it, almost inevitabl … more →

Tags: On Beauty - Zadie Smith, Beauty, Genius, literary canon, Multiculturalism, On Beauty, Women


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