Zadie Smith on The Essay

December 3, 2009

Zadie Smith on The Essay

The literal truth is something you expect, or hope for, in a news article. But an essay is an act of imagination, even if it is a piece of memoir. It is, or should be, “a form of thinking, consciousness, wisdom-seeking”, but it still takes quite as much art as fiction.

posted by Andrew Simone in writing | * | 4 comments

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Jonathan McNicol on December 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Dude. I could read stuff like this all day. Good find there, Simone.

(Now make your Scrabble move, wouldja?)
Lucy on December 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm

I have had that essay up on a tab here for almost two weeks.
Jonathan McNicol on December 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm

I happened to catch Ms. Smith on All Things Considered the other week, and she talks about some of the same things. It’s worth a listen, ‘fyer interested.
Andrew Simone on December 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm

(Done.)

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