Anodyne
Thursday, October 06, 2005
 
Off to Seattle in the morning for a two-part reading by Zadie Smith, one of the only living novelists under 40 who doesn't seem interested in reproducing the McSweeney's house style. Her latest, On Beauty, has been tagged as Forsterish on the basis of her pilfering its plot from Howard's End, but I think a more accurate comparison is actually George Orwell and his taut unvarnished sentences. At any rate, her work's given me a lot of pleasure, and these dark October days, pleasure is well worth the 3-hour drive down the dripping grey I-5 to Pioneer Square.
- posted by cjb @ 3:14 PM


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