Changing My Mind Occasional Essays

by Smith, Zadie

• ISBN13: 9781594202377
• ISBN10: 1594202370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-12
• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The

Summary

Divided into four sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling--"Changing My Mind" features Smith's wonderfully engaging essays on topics as diverse as literature, going to the Oscars, feminism, Obama, and Anna Magnani.

Author Biography

Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, and On Beauty, and the editor of The Book of Other People. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Believer.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Reading
Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean?	p. 3
E. M. Forster, Middle Manager	p. 14
Middlemarch and Everybody	p. 29
Rereading Barthes and Nabokov	p. 42
F Kafka, Everyman	p. 58
Two Directions for the Novel	p. 72
Being
That Crafty Feeling	p. 99
One Week in Liberia	p. 110
Speaking in Tongues	p. 132
Seeing
Hepburn and Garbo	p. 151
Notes on Visconti's Bellissima	p. 166
At the Multiplex, 2006	p. 179
Ten Notes on Oscar Weekend	p. 212
Feeling
Smith Family Christmas	p. 225
Accidental Hero	p. 130
Dead Man Laughing	p. 237
Remembering
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 298
Index	p. 300
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