Zadie Smith on writing, family and her addiction to reading

Writers and Company

English - September 03, 2023 04:10 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
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Eleanor Wachtel has spoken to the popular and critically acclaimed English writer Zadie Smith many times over the years, including in 2010 about her first non-fiction collection, Changing My Mind. It features essays about writers such as Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov and George Eliot and touches on everything from the craft of writing to Smith’s love of films, as well as personal reflections about her family. *This episode originally aired on February 28, 2010.