Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...
. It was published on 8 February 2018 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of
Penguin Books
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Maria Popova ( bg, Мария Попова; born 28 July 1984) is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and ...
, who writes: "Smith applies her formidable mind in language to subjects as varied as music, the connection between dancing and writing,
climate change
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, Brexit, the nature of joy, and the confusions of personhood in the age of social media."
Smith borrowed the title from Nick Laird, her husband, who has also published a collection of poems by the same name.