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100 1 $aSmith, Zadie,$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 10 $aFeel free :$bessays /$cZadie Smith.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $a452 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 438-444) and index.
500 $aA collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
505 00 $tForeword --$gPart I.$tIn the world.$tNorthwest London blues ;$tElegy for a country's seasons ;$tFences : a Brexit diary ;$tOn optimism and despair --$gPart II.$tIn the audience.$tGeneration why? ;$tThe house that Hova built ;$tBrother from another mother ;$tSome notes on attunement ;$tWindow on the will : Anomalisa ;$tDance lessons for writers --$gPart III.$tIn the gallery.$tKilling Orson Welles at midnight ;$tFlaming June ;$t"Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday ;$tAlte Frau by Balthasar Denner ;$tMark Bradford's Niagara ;$tA bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ;$tThe tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge ;$tGetting in and out --$gPart IV.$tOn the bookshelf.$tCrash by J.G. Ballard ;$tThe Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi ;$tNotes on NW ;$tThe Harper's columns ;$tThe I who is not me --$gPart V.$tFeel free.$tLife-writing ;$tThe bathroom ;$tMan versus corpse ;$tMeet Justin Bieber! ;$tLove in the gardens ;$tThe shadow of ideas ;$tFind your beach ;$tJoy --$tAfterword.
520 $aA collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
520 $a"Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel, White Teeth, almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also as a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right. Arranged into five sections--In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this new collection poses questions we immediately recognize. What is The Social Network--and Facebook itself--really about? 'It's a cruel portrait of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore.' Why do we love libraries? 'Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.' What will we tell our granddaughters about our collective failure to address global warming? 'So I might say to her, look: the thing you have to appreciate is that we'd just been through a century of relativism and deconstruction, in which we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes--and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat.' Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, 'Joy,' and, 'Find Your Beach,' Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith's own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive--and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith."--Dust jacket.
650 0 $aEnglish essays.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 4 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 4 $aEnglish essays.
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852 00 $bglx$hPR6069.M59$iA6 2018