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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist

"I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me."

"I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained."

"The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and over, so it feels boring to say the same thing. But then I was like, I don't even know another essay I like. They're all good."

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