Literature

“The Lazy River” is a short story of a narrator discussing her vacation at a Spanish resort with a Lazy River, a popular water attraction found usually at water parks where one floats along in a big circle of flowing water in a relaxed, lazy-like manner. This particular Lazy River can be enjoyed endlessly until…

In this 17 minute interview for the Louisiana Channel conducted in 2018, Zadie shares some thoughts on the topic of shame, rage, and writing. Shame to Zadie is a very useful emotion, particularly with writing as she believes “writing is all shame.” Shame comes in a variety of forms at all levels of societies and…

Zadie Smith was born in the Willesden area of London on October 27, 1975 to a Jamaican mother and a British father. She was originally called “Sadie” but changed her name as a child because it seemed more interesting. Though she began writing stories at the age of 6, her main passion as a child…