![]() We recommend you arrive 15-30 minutes early to try and get a seat as there is limited space. During the events, the sound from the readings and discussions is projected around the entire store. Most events take place upstairs in the library (30 seats), on the ground level (50 seats), or outside in front of the bookshop (weather permitting). Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and lives in London and New York with her husband and two children. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Fiction 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. 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. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. ![]() Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. ![]() The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. He is a Writer-in-Residence at New York University. Awards for his writing include the Betty Trask prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Somerset Maugham award, the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An anthology, co-edited with Don Paterson, The Zoo of the New, was published by Penguin in 2017. His novels are Utterly Monkey (2005), Glover’s Mistake(2009) and Modern Gods (2017). His poetry collections are To A Fault(2005), On Purpose (2007), Go Giants (2013) and Feel Free (2018). These are smart, energetic, worldly poems of political edge and family tenderness.īorn in County Tyrone in 1975, Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, critic and screenwriter. ![]() Feel Free is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense the deep American influence from living in New York meeting his familial shores of Northern Ireland: the acoustically generous, longer lines of the new world’s Ginsberg or Whitman, and the lyricism of his forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. If you are not an NYU student, please arrive early to avoid disappointment.Ĭelebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been ‘an assured and brilliant voice’ (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. Organised in association with the NYU Creative Writing Program, a certain number of seats at this event will be reserved for students.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |