Feel Free: Essays - Zadie Smith
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, Literature
[Chapterized m4b], Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the worlds preeminent fiction writers but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right., Arranged into four sections - In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free - this new collection poses questions we immediately recognize. What is The Social Network - and Facebook itself - really about? Its a cruel portrait of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore. Why do we love libraries? Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. What will we tell our granddaught
