Changing My Mind - by Zadie Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This engaging collection of essays--some published here for the first time--reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between. <b>--</b><i>Los Angeles Times</i> </b> <p/> Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--<i>Changing My Mind</i> finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. <i>Changing My Mind</i> is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Smith writes with a beguiling mix of assurance and solemnity, borrowing her vocabulary from many intellectual and cultural sources... Smith's native intelligence, however, seems so formidable that you can't help hoping she'll change her mind yet again." --<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/> "Smith brings her novelist's gifts-- an eye for detail, a languid turn of phrase-- to the essay form." <b><i>--The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/> "Taken together, [these essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature and a great deal in between... Smith shows herself in more ways than one to be a very old, empathetic head on ridiculously young shoulders... It's in her impassioned, compulsively dialectical and endearingly wonkish inquiry into literature that Smith really takes off."--<b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>"</b>It doesn't seem to matter what she's writing about--Kafka, her father, Liberia, George Clooney. Just placing anything within the magnetic field of her restlessly intelligent brain is enough to make it fascinating. Smith (<i>White Teeth</i>) has the gift...of showing you how she reads and thinks; watching her do it makes you feel smarter and more observant just by osmosis."--<b><i>Time </i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> "Warmly insightful pieces that tease apart knotty strands of human experience... She has an uncanny eye for detail, on the streets of Liberia or at an Oscar gala in Los Angeles." <b>--<i>O Magazine</i></b> <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Zadie Smith</b> is the author of the novels <i>White Teeth</i>, <i>The Autograph Man</i>, <i>On Beauty</i>, <i>NW</i> and <i>Swing Time</i>, as well as a novella, <i>The Embassy of Cambodia</i>, and a collection of essays, <i>Feel Free</i>. She is also the editor of <i>The Book of Other People</i>. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. <i>White Teeth</i> won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. <i>On Beauty</i> was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and <i>NW</i> was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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