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"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that s busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between."
-Los Angeles Times Split into five sections-Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--
Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays-some published here for the first time-reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful.
Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny-a gift to readers and writers both.
Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: One of Zadie Smith s great gifts as a novelist is her openness: both to character and ideas in her stories, and to what a novel itself should be. That she s a novelist was clear as soon she broke through with
White Teeth in her early twenties, but what kind she ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in
Changing My Mind. She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of
Pygmalion), and, in the collection s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.
--Tom Nissley
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