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Zadie Smith in conversation with the NS culture editor

Jonathan Derbyshire talks to the author of "NW".

Zadie Smith in 2010. Photograph: Getty Images
Zadie Smith in 2010. Photograph: Getty Images

NS culture editor Jonathan Derbyshire took part in the Penguin Podcast this week, in which he interviews Zadie Smith, author of NW.

You can listen to the interview in full here:

2 comments

ayaan's picture

its was hard for her because she was trying to imitate a style that probably doesn't come naturally to her, her other novels are truly flawless.

Ted Schrey     Montreal's picture

I am far too tired of writers being asked their opinion outside of their written products to bother listening to this interview. Besides, I hear the thing is virtually unreadable. Away with you--write, don't talk.

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