{"id":50038,"date":"2016-11-19T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50038"},"modified":"2016-11-19T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:15:18","slug":"zadie-smith-by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50038","title":{"rendered":"Zadie Smith: By the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/20\/books\/review\/zadie-smith-by-the-book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Zadie Smith: By the Book<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-17<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/20\/books\/review\/zadie-smith-by-the-book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/20\/books\/review\/1120-BKS-ByTheBook\/1120-BKS-ByTheBook-blog427-v3.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zadie_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Zadie Smith<\/a> <em>Credit Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/jilliantamaki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jillian Tamaki<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>The author, most recently, of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49495\" target=\"_blank\">Swing Time<\/a>\u201d says the best gift book she ever received was from her dying father, who \u201cgave me his copy of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulysses_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\">Ulysses<\/a>,\u2019 along with the confession he had never read it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What books are on your night stand now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on a reading jag after a long period of only writing, so there\u2019s a towering \u201cto read\u201d pile: \u201cSudden Death,\u201d by \u00c1lvaro Enrigue; \u201cUsing Life,\u201d a novel by the imprisoned Egyptian Ahmed Naje; \u201cHomegoing,\u201d by Yaa Gyasi; \u201cHeroes of the Frontier,\u201d by Dave Eggers; \u201cThe Underground Railroad,\u201d by Colson Whitehead; \u201cDiary of the Fall,\u201d by Michel Laub; \u201cThe Good Immigrant,\u201d edited by Nikesh Shukla; \u201cWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,\u201d by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson; \u201cBirth of a Bridge,\u201d by Maylis de Kerangal; \u201cKnown and Strange Things,\u201d by Teju Cole; \u201cThe Little Communist Who Never Smiled,\u201d by Lola Lafon; \u201cThe Fire This Time,\u201d edited by Jesmyn Ward; \u201cAt the Existentialist Caf\u00e9,\u201d by Sarah Bakewell; \u201cTime Reborn,\u201d by Lee Smolin; \u201cMoonglow,\u201d by Michael Chabon; and let\u2019s say the last four or five novels by Mar\u00edas, several by Krasznahorkai, and \u2014 as always \u2014 unfinished Proust. I much prefer reading to writing: I can\u2019t wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/20\/books\/review\/zadie-smith-by-the-book.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadie Smith: By the Book The New York Times 2016-11-17 Zadie Smith Credit Illustration by Jillian Tamaki The author, most recently, of \u201cSwing Time\u201d says the best gift book she ever received was from her dying father, who \u201cgave me his copy of \u2018Ulysses,\u2019 along with the confession he had never read it.\u201d What books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,1196],"tags":[2640,2327,1344],"class_list":["post-50038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-literary-criticism","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50039,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038\/revisions\/50039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}