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Hugh Dancy Hits the Spot: Hysteria

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Zadie Smith, Hugh Dancy, Tanya Wexler, Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, Phillip Bloch, Felicity Jones, Hysteria, Giancarlo Giammetti, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Barker, Mamie Gummer, Nina Arianda, Valentino, Peggy Siegal, Jimmyjane, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The new movie Hysteria answers an age old question, what do women want most?

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Talking About Education in the Information Age

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Sat, Politics, Seth Godin, Education, Schools, Bosnia, Children, Sweden, Zadie Smith, Video, Education News
Nathan Hegedus

I have bought into the idea that our schools are built for an industrial age long past. I do not want my daughter sitting at a desk all day.

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How Do Our Facebook Selves Write About Death?

Lucas Kavner | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Christopher Hitchens, Whitney Houston Icon, Twitter, Whitney Houston, Zadie Smith, Being Bobby Brown, Facebook Deaths, Whitney Houston Death, Facebook Walls, Facebook, Amy Winehouse, Bobby Brown, Culture News
Lucas Kavner

As Houston's family and close friends mourn, do our "RIP Whitney" posts mean something, sandwiched between posts about cereal and recaps of The Bachelor, especially after we've watched, over many years, her slow-motion fall from grace?

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Literary Love Letters To NYC

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Invisible Man, Love Letters, Zadie Smith, Here Is New York, E.B. White, Patti Smith, Ralph Ellison, New York City, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Nyc, Just Kids, Literary Love Letters, Let the Great World Spin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Books News

From time to time, we all second-guess why we live in New York — especially in the wake of a pleasant holiday weekend away. It’s crowded, expensiv...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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Zadie Smith's Rules For Writers

guardian.co.uk | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Writers, Rules for Writing, Writing, Writing Tips, Zadie Smith, Reading, Writing Advice, Rules for Writers, Books News

We asked some of the most esteemed contemporary authors for any golden rules they bring to their writing practice. Here are Zadie Smith's...

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Spreading the Love: Book Reviews, Good and Bad

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, Book Reviews, Karen Russell, Swamplandia!, E.M. Forster, Books, Reading, Book Review, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

I've received a number of emails and comments lately, with various undertones of censure, stating that I only write good reviews. "Don't you have anything bad to say?" is the implied question.

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Is Rap Poetry?

The Poetry Foundation | Adam Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, Adam Bradley and Andeew DuBois, Rap, Lupe Fiasco, On Beauty, Ice-T, Rap as Poetry, Anthology of Rap, Poetry, Kane, Poetry Magazine, Books News

The Poetry Foundation: How Ya Like Me Now Does rap's suspended adolescence keep it from serious consideration? By Adam Kirsch The Anthology ...

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David Pogue Makes Technology Seem Simpler

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jason Schwartzman, Cell Phones, The New Yorker, Apps, The Social Network, Microsoft, Cameras, New York Review of Books, New York, Ipad, Zadie Smith, Iphone, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Culture, David Pogue, New York Times, Nova, Timestalks, Timescenter, Technology News
Danny Groner

As the intersection between media and politics has become clearer, so too has the blending of technology and culture. And Pogue's at the forefront of this movement.

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Am I Better Than Facebook?

Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Immigrants, Social Networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Weak Ties, Facebook, Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books, Suburbia, Software, Revolutions, Facebook Friends, Minimalism, Eliminating Desire, Digital Natives, Cocktail Party, Myspace, Race, Dana Boyd, Social Inequality, Class, Technology News
Claire Gordon

Facebook me is better than actual me. Smarter, wittier, funner, prettier. But does Facebook, as a platform, reduce the richness of my personhood? Absolutely.

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New York Public Library Honors 2010 Lions

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, Steve Martin, Slideshow, New York Public Library, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul LeClerc, Ethan Hawke, Young Lions, New York News

Literary luminaries gathered last night at the New York Public Library for its annual Library Lions dinner. This year's honorees included two writer...

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Zadie Smith, Chuck Klosterman

newhavenreview.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Samantha Shapiro, Lindy West, Dayo Olopade, Joshua Glenn, Tom Bissell, David Samuels, Zadie Smith, Lizzie Skurnick, Eula Biss, Brendan Koerner, Keith Gessen, Dan Chiasson, David Orr, Rachel Aviv, Chuck Klosterman, John D'Agata, Jake Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joshua Cohen, Kelefa Sanneh, Jason Fagone, Toure, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, 20 Under 40, Books News

OK, so you may remember that a few months back a little magazine called The New Yorker decided to make a list of 20 top fiction writers under the age ...

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New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker, Joyce Carol Oates, New York, The New Yorker Festival, Books, New York City, Zadie Smith, New York City Festivals, James Taylor, Books Festivals, Jesse Eisenberg, New Yorker Festival, Books Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Neil Gaiman, Junot Diaz, Werner Herzog, El Doctorow, Justin Timberlake, Lorrie Moore, Michael Chabon, Book Festivals, The New Yorker, Tobias Wolff, Dave Eggers, Steve Carell, John Goodman, Alec Baldwin, Bill Simmons, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...

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Slate: What The College-Bound Really Need To Read

Slate Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Preparation, College, College Bound Reading, Books, Slate, Zadie Smith, College Reading, Summer Reading, Jose Saramago, Books News

Injustice and undesirable furniture aren't so great for the beach. So we thought we'd offer incoming freshmen an alternative list, one better suited t...

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Steve Martin, Ethan Hawke Among 'Literary Lions' Honored By New York Public Library

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Martin, Steve Martin Literary Lion, Literary Lions, New York Public Library, Books, Library Lions, Zadie Smith, Paul LeClerc, Ethan Hawke, Malcolm Gladwell, Books News

NEW YORK — Steve Martin has been recognized in New York as a literary lion. The actor-author-playwright was among five Library Lions announced ...

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Writers Who Teach: Ten Novel Professors (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Natalie Sudikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Cunningham, Billy Collins, Salman Rushie, Schools for Writers, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gary Shteyngart, Robert Haas, Famous Writers Who Teach, Where Famous Writers Teach, Tobias Wolff, Writer Professors, Jonathan Safran Foer, Slidepollajax, College News

Want to learn creative writing from a famous novelist? How about poetry from a poet laureate? Here are ten famous contemporary writers who are also pr...

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Zadie Smith, Nadine Gordimer On Guardian Hay Festival Lineup

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, The Guardian, Pevez Musharraf, Nadine Gordimer, Authors, Martin Amis, Book Festivals, Books, Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Books News

Bill Clinton called it the "Woodstock of the mind" while Joseph Heller said it was like a cross between "an international conference and a country wed...

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British Authors And Publishers Opt Out Of Google Books En Masse

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain, Book Publishing, Copyright, Books, Zadie Smith, Roald Dahl, Publishers, Digital Books, British Authors, Google Books, Books News

Some 6,500 writers, from Thomas Pynchon to Jeffrey Archer, have opted out of Google's controversial plan to digitise millions of books....

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David Shields: 'The Novel Died On Me'

The Rumpus | Caleb Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Novels, Louise Erdrich, Reality Hunger, Hunger Manifesto, Dead Novels, Fiction, Zadie Smith, Books News

David Shields, author of three novels and seven works of nonfiction, attempts to demolish the foundations of literature in his latest, Reality Hunger:...

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LA Times' Best Fiction And Nonfiction Of 2009

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Bright and Guilty Place, Zadie Smith, The Angel's Game, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, Orhan Pamuk, The Anthologist, LA Times Best Books, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Books, Cheever, Best Books, Bestsellers, Best Books of 2009, Books News

The Los Angeles Times has joined the ever-growing crowd with its own "Best of 2009" lists -- separate for fiction and non-fiction, 25 books each. The ...

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Best European Fiction: New Anthology Broadens American Readers' Horizons

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, Short Stories, Best European Fiction, Book Publishing, Publishing, Literature in Translation, Best European Fiction 2010, New Books, European Fiction, Books, Translation, Foreign Language, Anthologies, Books News

Even the most dedicated fiction readers might have trouble naming contemporary authors from Macedonia, Liechtenstein or Slovenia. Dalkey Archive Press...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mentors Muses and Monsters, Book Reviews, Stones Into Schools, Changing My Mind, Charles Dickens, Yours Ever, Reviews, Zadie Smith, Greg Mortenson, Too Much Happiness, Changing My Mind Zadie Smith, An Infinity of Things, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Stones Into Schools, Charles Dickens Biography, Julie Powell Cleaving, Books, Alice Munro, Dear Granny Smith, Julie Powell, Cleaving, Books News

Here's your weekly book review roundup, in case you missed the weekend's reviews in the midst of your food coma. "Family Album", Penelope Lively The ...

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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The Meritless Nobel Prize?

Scott Tomford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Horace Engdahl, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Literature, Zadie Smith, Fiction, American Fiction, Philip Roth, Media News
Scott Tomford

Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.

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