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more about #zadiesmith more comments → MIXED: Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is AMAZING. Like, so so so so good. more » Scout: I'm way behind the curve. The spine of White Teeth is visible in my bookcase - I've never read it - is it absolutely worth reading or something I ca... more » judgingamy: I love Smith's White Teeth. She is a beautiful writer. I've struggled getting through On Beauty too, even though it has some pretty great lines every ... more » Diziet_Sma: I can't stand the way she writes, it's so pompous. more » badmutha: She does sound like a very smart, well read person. It is funny that she talked about her feelings in Hurston's novel because I had those similar feel... more » emfish55: "It also provides a corrective to the opposite but equally restrictive notions that we can only enjoy books whose writers we identify with culturally,... more » PilgrimSoul: Oh gosh, Anna, I couldn't disagree more. I liked Smith a lot more before she appointed herself as some kind of philosopher of the novel - I mean that... more » Lisabel (ne: Dagnabbit): Kate Winslet, since "Heavenly Creatures". more » Maulleigh: I sent this to my college BFF and she told me I was her girl crush in college. She was mine. She found some of my old letters and they were almost cre... more » SnehaMus: Hillary. Who else? She's a badass. more » TheGuvnah: Idina Menzel Emma Thompson more » sybann: Meryl Streep, Dame Judi, Terry Gross. more » kemperboyd: I had a full blown girlcrush fling with a girl during my first year at university. After finals we spent 62 hours straight together. After our fling w... more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: Where's the line between girl crush and mentor? I'm trying to think of "girl crushes" in my life, and mostly coming up with older women from whom I w... more » mirrorghost: umm, i have a bunch: siouxsie sioux, lydia lunch, isabella rossellini, poison ivy from the cramps, kate bush, anais nin, francesca lia block, baroness... more » -
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Changing My Mind: On Fiction, Race, And How 50 Cent Is Like Samuel Beckett
Zadie Smith established herself as a literary wunderkind when she published White Teeth at the age of 25. Her collection of essays on topics ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to 50 Cent shows she's grown into something more.
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#ladylove
Who's Your Girl Crush?
Today in The Daily Beast, writer Doree Shafrir examines the phenomenon of the "fantasy girl crush," the woman who's slightly cooler or more successful than you, and who you kind of want to be.
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#oncomedy
High Art
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#gallowshumor
New Yorker: Zadie Smith Writes About Comedy & Class Issues
Wunderkind novelist Zadie Smith has a personal essay in this week's New Yorker that's ostensibly about British comedy of the Basil Fawlty "laugh-or-you'll-cry-genre," but is actually about her father and about class.
