Singapore Writers Festival
Finding refuge in intimacy
Zadie Smith wrote and published an essay collection during the pandemic in an effort to feel useful and connect with others
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British writer Zadie Smith, a headliner at the Singapore Writers Festival, has been dealing with the unbearable present by escaping to the past - by means of the historical novel she is writing.
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One of the ways that British writer Zadie Smith has been dealing with the unbearable present is escaping to the past - by means of the historical novel she is writing.
"It's set in the 1800s and I must say I prefer spending every day in the 1800s to a minute of 2020," she says.
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