Storyological 2.13 - POCK SMASH!

In which we discuss "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love" by Kathleen Collins and "The Embassy of Cambodia" by Zadie Smith. Also. Idealism, fads, and The White Stripes.

In which we discuss,

1. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love” by Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, 2017.

2. "The Embassy of Cambodia” by Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2013.

Along with, among other things...

Kathleen Collins

Kathleen Collins’ story, “Interiors” in A Public Space.
Alexandra Alter on how “Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History,” in 2016 in the New York Times.
Kathleen Collins’ film, Losing Ground, “A Lost Masterwork…” discussed in The New Yorker in 2015.

Zadie Smith

Lousie Doughty reviews of “The Embassy of Cambodia,” for Guardian in 2013.
Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” in The New York Review of Books, 2016.
Zadie Smith, writing about Joni Mitchell, in The New Yorker, 2012.
Zadie Smith’s rules for writers, Guardian, 2010.

Some ideas of progress

“Failed Idealism: The Big Chill, Revisited” by Tim Jones, Stubborn Things, 2016.
”Realistic idealists” by Alex Williams, New York Times, 2005.

Some other stories these stories made us think of

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman.
“Little Acorns“ by The White Stripes (link is to YouTube video).

Also.

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Happy reading.