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Occasional Essays
Penguin Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 12, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 1594202370
EAN: 9781594202377
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Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity,
intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so
many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection
that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing,"
and "Feeling"-Changing My Mind invites readers to witness
the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts
her acute eye over material both personal and cultural,
with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for
the first time-on diverse topics including literature,
movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family,
feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself.
Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences
as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse
writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot,
and others-have had on her writing life and her self-
understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a
craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process.
Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging
experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and
beyond-that have nourished Smith's rich life of the mind.
Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought,
encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of
identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go
neglected. Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most
important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare
ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and
fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers,
and all who want to look at life more expansively.
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