The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Fund-raising anthologies can be strange beasts. Editing a collection of stories to raise money for the children's charity 836 NYC, Zadie Smith has called on 22 other authors, almost as hip and talented as herself, to contribute a story about "character".
kottke (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
At McSweeney's , Zadie Smith on the organizing principle of David Foster Wallace's writing: If we must say something, let's at least only say true things. Lots to say about that and him, but the words, they aren't here yet. I don't have heroes but made an exception for Wallace. Still stunned. ( link )
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Review: The Book of Other People edited by Zadie SmithResults are diverse and vivacious, from giants and schoolboys to randy celebrities and geriatrics says Helen Zaltzman
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
If we were talking about identifying an English tradition of avowedly subjective criticism - and we were, or at least Zadie Smith was , and I was quoting her - then a place must be found in it for Geoff Dyer. I'm in the middl...
Talking Squid (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
At the risk of becoming hopelessly recursive, I’d like to direct you to the New York Review of Books, in particular, Zadie Smith’s review of E.M. Forster’s collected BBC book reviews. What caught my eye was Zadie Smith’s great opening paragraph: In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file [...]
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
The Telegraph has a longish essay (for a newspaper) by Zadie Smith on the new Kafka that’s emerging from the legend. But if we’re not to read Kafka too Brodly, how are we to read him? We might do worse than read him Begley. Gently sceptical of the [...]
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
From the been-meaning-to-recommend list: Zadie Smith on EM Forster's radio book reviews , for the New York Review of Books . It's a superbly smart piece - as good as the Kafka thing - and it unravels the purposeful ...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
A brilliantly-argued essay that casts new light on the author of The Trial.
escapegrace (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
I just had reason to list some of my favorite recent writing by women, so I thought I'd post the recommendations here in case anyone is interested. Oryx & Crake or Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood White Teeth or On Beauty by Zadie Smith The Accidental by Ali Smith The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas We Need to Talk About Kevin or The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing...
rodcorp (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Zadie Smith on Kafka in the NYRB: "It is rare that writers of fiction sit behind their desks, actually writing, for more than a few hours a day. Had Kafka been able to use his time efficiently, the work schedule...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Maybe you remember The Willesden Herald's annual short story contest. The big drama was that the judges could not find one single story worthy of the prize. (It sounds like the set up for a fairy tale or an opera, doesn't it') When the panel-- chaired by one Zadie Smith-- announced its decision, TWH posted a sort of " what NOT to do " list on its blog. Like much of the rest of the blogosphere, I posted...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Again, the current issue of The New York Review of Books features one splendid fiction writer's meditations on another brilliant fiction writer Last his time, it was Eisenberg on Nádas ; this time it's Zadie Smith considering the critical legacy of E.M. Forster , who provided the inspiration for On Beauty . As a novelist, Forster has suffered by comparison to his more conspicuously innovative contemporaries...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
By Zadie Smith The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety. Still, there is a sense in which Forster was something of a rare bird. He was free of many vices commonly...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
There is nothing like it on television. Critics, including those at the British Film Institute, regard it as the "finest television programme in TV history". HBO's The Wire attracts some of the world's top crime writers, and its fans include Nick Hornby, Zadie Smith and Stephen King, who described it as a "staggering achievement".
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Zadie Smith in the New York Review of Books: How to describe Kafka, the man? Like this, perhaps: It is as if he had spent his entire life wondering what he looked like, without ever discovering there are such things...
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emmabakker | 10/30/2007
London , 30 October, 2007 - Paranormal documentaries are topping UK DVD charts, according to online swapping site Hitflip. The supernatural Hollywood blockbusters are also proving well-loved amongst online swappers in the run up to Halloween. Various series of Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live and Ghost Towns are the most popular DVDs that exchange hands on the Hitflip site. In addition, Britons chose...
