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Zadie Smith: On Beauty

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 09.14.06
Speaker:: Zadie Smith
Tags:: writing; race; beauty

Summary: Zadie Smith talks about her third novel, On Beauty.

On Beauty is an analysis of family life, the institution of marriage and an honest look at people's deceptions. An infidelity, a death and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that forces everyone to examine the assumptions which underpin their lives.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1999. She is the author of the novels "White Teeth," which won the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award; "The Autograph Man," which won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize; and "On Beauty," which won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her new novel, "NW," is out in September.

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42 min 26 sec

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01.: Moderator Introduction

01 min 42 sec

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02.: Smith OpeningRemarks

00 min 58 sec

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03.: Reading Excerpt -Kiki & Howard

00 min 53 sec

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04.: Kiki & Zora -Standstill Conversation

02 min 46 sec

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05.: Levi - The Bus Stop

02 min 38 sec

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06.: Layers of Howard

01 min 41 sec

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07.: Confrontation

02 min 07 sec

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08.: Academic vs PersonalLanguage

01 min 43 sec

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09.: Clair Malcolm

01 min 36 sec

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10.: Sea of White

01 min 45 sec

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11.: Not Having ThisConversation

02 min 55 sec

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12.: Q & A

00 min 24 sec

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13.: Q1 - Writing Dialogue

01 min 44 sec

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14.: Q2 - Writing ThirdPerson

01 min 35 sec

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15.: Q3 - Favorite Genre

00 min 57 sec

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16.: Q4 - WriterDevelopment

01 min 39 sec

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17.: Q5 - Reality BasedCharacters

01 min 03 sec

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18.: Q6 - Heroic Characters

01 min 03 sec

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19.: Q7 - The Title "Beauty"

01 min 37 sec

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20.: Q8 - ImmigrationExperience

01 min 05 sec

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21.: Q9 - Plot Development

02 min 02 sec

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22.: Q10 - Defining Plot

01 min 57 sec

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23.: Q11 - Linear Writing

00 min 23 sec

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24.: Q12 - Outlining

00 min 44 sec

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25.: Q13 - Racial Obligation

01 min 22 sec

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26.: Q14 - New Projects

01 min 02 sec

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27.: Q15 - Writer Identity

01 min 33 sec

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28.: Q16 - What's Next?

01 min 11 sec

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42 min 26 sec

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Zadie Smith: Is Plot Writing Overrated?

03 min 19 sec

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Author of White Teeth and On Beauty Zadie Smith expands on her writing style and why she thinks plot writing may be overrated.

"I feel slightly out of time, but it's what I do and what comes naturally to me...I'm not sure why I write plot, but I do."
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42 min 26 sec

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