Zadie Smith
Guest on The Ezra Klein Show
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The Diaries of Virginia Woolf👍 Recommends
…zadie smith recommends virginia woolf's five-volume diary collection
“And the other thing I've read recently, which I keep on banging on about, is all of Virginia Woolf's diaries. There's five volumes. I know that sounds like a lot of work. But honestly, that woman is just a pleasure to be around. Like, just her mind is something I want to be around. So that's like my Twitter, I guess. From September to very recently, I'd spend an hour or so a day just hanging out, listening to her burble about whatever she was burbling about. And it was just joy.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
The Director👍 Recommends
…zadie smith recommends the director by daniel kehlmann about filmmaker complicity
“Well, right now I'm reading The Director, which is by my Austrian friend Daniel Kilman. It's a wonderful book about the filmmaker W.G. Pabst, who went back to Germany in the middle of the war and made movies all the way through the war. It's very like The Fraud. Like, he read The Fraud first because I hadn't read his in translation yet. And he said, these books are the same. And reading it, I realized they are the same. They're about complicity and the complicity of art, particularly in horror.”
on The Ezra Klein Show