Zadie Smith – Changing My Mind (Penguin)
As Zadie Smith admits in the part of this book named That Crafty Feeling where she shares her writing experiences and advice, she was never a macro planner
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Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Canongate Books)
How do you discover something you don’t know exists? – the question asked during Rebecca’s workshop sparked a book of 9 luminous essays in search of an answer.
Polina Zherebtsova – The Donkey Kind
According to Polina’s mom, there are three types of children you can get as a parent: the angels, the demons, and something in between she calls ‘donkeys’ for their stubbornness.
Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain was a woman born to fight for what she believed in, and no other time could have been more suitable for her to live on Earth than the first half of the 20th century.
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017)
Here is the story of how I happened to read and re-read a circa 1,000 pages novel this autumn.