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Changing My Mind

Occasional Essays

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Narrator Barbara Rosenblat

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Length 12 hours 25 minutes
Language English
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"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." Los Angeles Times

Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.

Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White TeethThe Autograph ManOn BeautyChanging My Mind, and NW.

Barbara Rosenblat, an eight-time Audie and 40-time Golden Earphone award winner, is one of the most-respected and sought-after voice actors in the audiobook industry. AudioFile magazine has named her a “Voice of the Twentieth Century,” stating “Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film.” To learn more, visit barbararosenblat.com.

Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White TeethThe Autograph ManOn BeautyChanging My Mind, and NW.

Barbara Rosenblat, an eight-time Audie and 40-time Golden Earphone award winner, is one of the most-respected and sought-after voice actors in the audiobook industry. AudioFile magazine has named her a “Voice of the Twentieth Century,” stating “Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film.” To learn more, visit barbararosenblat.com.

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Author:

Narrator:
Barbara Rosenblat

ISBN:
9781101145852

Length:
12 hours 25 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

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Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#39,340 Overall

Genre rank:
#254 in Literary Criticism

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Reviews

“Smith writes with a beguiling mix of assurance and solemnity, borrowing her vocabulary from many intellectual and cultural sources… Smith’s native intelligence, however, seems so formidable that you can’t help hoping she’ll change her mind yet again.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“Smith brings her novelist’s gifts— an eye for detail, a languid turn of phrase— to the essay form.” —The Boston Globe
 
“Taken together, [these essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite and earnestly open mind that’s busy refining its view of life, literature and a great deal in between… Smith shows herself in more ways than one to be a very old, empathetic head on ridiculously young shoulders… It’s in her impassioned, compulsively dialectical and endearingly wonkish inquiry into literature that Smith really takes off.”—Los Angeles Times
 
It doesn’t seem to matter what she’s writing about—Kafka, her father, Liberia, George Clooney. Just placing anything within the magnetic field of her restlessly intelligent brain is enough to make it fascinating. Smith (White Teeth) has the gift…of showing you how she reads and thinks; watching her do it makes you feel smarter and more observant just by osmosis.”—Time
 
“Warmly insightful pieces that tease apart knotty strands of human experience… She has an uncanny eye for detail, on the streets of Liberia or at an Oscar gala in Los Angeles.” O Magazine
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