Listening to Zadie Smith

 If any of you have been reading my posts, you should know I am enamored by Zadie Smith. She is intelligent, and humorous. There is also her perspective, or her perspectives, about class and identity. That she finds herself stupid about so many things sounds like me. She also teaches - and I suspect she does it very well, she is doing this while on what is essentially a book tour. I spent two hours yesterday with her voice in my ear, listening to her deflate oligarchs, the bondage of slavery, identities, frauds, and writing. In the end, she is a person of good sense.

For Americans, she has lived and taught here. What she has to say about America deserves our attention.

 

Zadie Smith is good company, whether in these videos or through her prose. 

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