![]() ![]() I can’t stand the phones and don’t want them in my life in any form. Do you worry about what social media is doing to society? You have been sceptical about things like Twitter and Instagram in the past, as you value your “right to be wrong”. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99Īuthor of books including Reasons to Stay Alive and Humans To order a copy for £17 go to or call 03 Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Feel Free by Zadie Smith is published by Hamish Hamilton on 8 February (£20).To mark the publication of Feel Free, Zadie Smith has taken the time here to answer fans’ questions in an honest, revealing way. If there’s a pleasure in rereading them it’s just the pleasure of bringing back to mind somebody else’s wonderful work and the effect it had on me.” Looking back over the essays, they remind her of “that time I was obsessed with Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s painting or that time I was reading a lot of Ballard. I have a very messy and chaotic mind, but when I’m writing an essay I find I can exert a bit more control over it.” Essay is, for me, an attempt at a kind of clarity. It’s a form of relief.” They are also fundamentally different writing practices. “Writing a novel is like doing a long-distance race, and writing an essay in the middle of one is like turning left off the route, finding a cafe and paying close attention to something different. ![]() ![]() “Usually an essay comes when I’m playing hookey from novel writing,” she says. Written between 20, the 33 essays, columns and reviews were, in a way, a respite from her fiction. ![]()
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