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By Smith, Zadie2018., General, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: BLK 824.9 S663f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: How much joy can a person tolerate? How many kinds of boredom make up a life? Who owns the story of black America? Should Justin Bieber be more like Socrates? And why is there a dead art collector floating in the swimming pool? Zadie Smith is back with a second collection of essays. From German Old Masters to the new masters of East Coast rap, from social networks opening lines of communication to national referenda closing doors, she reaches out in all directions and draws back a rich feast of ideas. Here pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment: dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion. With the easy intimacy of a local and the piercing clarity of an outsider, she casts a sharp critical eye over the creative luminaries that have shaped our world: from J. G. Ballard to Karl Ove Knausgaard, Orson Welles to Charlie Kaufman, Joni Mitchell to Beyonce, and far beyond. And it considers the points of contact where the author herself meets this world, where the political meets the personal and critique meets memoir. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. Zadie Smith is a professor of fiction at New York University.
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By Verduyn, Christl, 1953- Wiseman, Adele Laurence, Margaret Rule, Jane Waddington, Miriam Webb, Phyllis, 1927- Page, P.K Atwood, Margaret Marlatt, Daphne Scott, Gail Tostevin, Lola Lemire Mouré, Erin, 1955- Warland, Betsy, 1946- Brandt, Di, 1952- Maracle, Lee Van Herk, Aritha, 1954- Gunnars, Kristjana, 1948- Bannerji, Himani Philip, M. NourbeSe Brand, Dionne, 1953- Elliott, Al2023., Guernica Editions Call No: NEW QWF 814.009 V487h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential essays series Volume: 81.Summary Note: Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada.