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Zadie Smith tours....

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 07/09/2013 - 8:12am.

So I'm getting intrigued by the possibilities that Zadie Smith's October 9th visit to campus might open up for our course. Her most recent novel, NW, is about city life, and it has an experimental structure that attempts to represent the urban experience.

There are a couple of fun little you-tube videos she's made of excerpts from the novel: check out Zadie Smith's Tour of NW: Kilburn, Zadie Smith's Tour of NW: Willesden Lane, Zadie Smith's Tour of NW: Camden Lock, and Zadie Smith's Tour of NW: 37 Ridley Ave for teasing superimpositions of words over the images they evoke.

You might also preview a short teaser of her reading the opening to the novel, as well as some Live Shorts: Changing my Mind. I read, too, a piece called The North West London Blues that she published in The New York Review of Books (July 12, 2012), which is a lament for the possible closing of the local library: "Everybody knows that if people hang around for any length of time in an urban area without purpose they are likely to become 'antisocial.'" See also the follow-up, Keep Willesden Green.

What'cha think?


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