Feel free essays /
A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
| Uniform Title: | Essays. Selections |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | Smith, Zadie, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Press,
2018.
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| Physical Description: |
452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Part I.
- In the world.
- Northwest London blues ;
- Elegy for a country's seasons ;
- Fences : a Brexit diary ;
- On optimism and despair
- Part II.
- In the audience.
- Generation why? ;
- House that Hova built ;
- Brother from another mother ;
- Some notes on attunement ;
- Window on the will : Anomalisa ;
- Dance lessons for writers
- Part III.
- In the gallery.
- Killing Orson Welles at midnight ;
- Flaming June ;
- "Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday ;
- Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner ;
- Mark Bradford's Niagara ;
- A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ;
- Tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge ;
- Getting in and out
- Part IV.
- On the bookshelf.
- Crash by J.G. Ballard ;
- Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi ;
- Notes on NW ;
- Harper's columns ;
- I who is not me
- Part V.
- Feel free.
- Life-writing ;
- Bathroom ;
- Man versus corpse ;
- Meet Justin Bieber! ;
- Love in the gardens ;
- Shadow of ideas ;
- Find your beach ;
- Joy
- Afterword.