No... and possibly no, if you mean perceptive is the same thing as brilliance. But. your average, well socialized, dog, knows more about the world she offers us.
This is a little gem of an interview. It's disarming when you hear a person you admire greatly say many things that you too have concluded. I really must read my copy of White Teeth. I too buy music when I can afford it. Well done Ezra and thanks to the New York Times.
This was one of the most thought-provoking and insightful interviews I have ever listened to. Startlingly original and subtle. Maybe this will be the last nudge I need to get rid of my behaviour-modifying smart phone!
Always loved this author!! Excellent thoughts and writings! Thank you Ms Smith and NY Times! Id love to see her and our next POTUS meet Ms Kamala Harris. Plus these 2 biracial women are lovely plus look related!
Listening to our infinite experience. Our inability to leave the idea of capturing the essence. What is it that we are if we give up the idea that we are somehow.
“I think, for me” “I perhaps extrapolate” “I guess I don’t” “if I had to, I would call myself” “I think people are thrown” In her first paragraph alone, she puts in so many qualifiers to her thought that it all turns into an indefinite mishmash of uncertainty., declining to actually assert something. "the circumstances they're thrown into are of absolute significance". This is a profound revelation? "You can't fight fire with air". When I blow out a match, that’s exactly what I do: by blowing cool air, I suddenly lower the temperature so that combustion is no longer possible.. Zadie Smith's writing is a potpourri of unrefined impressions which add up to not very much. That may account for her appeal. But I've never been able to complete reading a single article of hers, including this interview.
@@nickolette22 I agree nickolette. Someone being clear they're voicing opinions and that they understand they're opinions (and not facts or universal truths) is refreshing and one of the reasons I like Zadie Smith, who could be a lot more arrogant than she is and get away with it completely.
A New York Times Jew and British academic are honestly the last people you should be listening to what they have to say about populism. If you want to hear what regular people have to say, your average everyday run of the mill folk, ask them yourselves.
Great music? Are you friggin kidding me? The music now is garbage. Some of it is fun.......like the Eating the Cats songs and so on. But that is Dr. Demento stuff (which I have loved since I was a kid), but music, good music.....sorry....it barely exists anymore.
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Interesting woman. She says she’s black. Are her kids classified as black too? Confusion confusion confusion.
Both were positively cooking throughout this conversation, but especially good perspectives on older loneliness (of the male persuasion) followed by the refuge of marriage 58:16 onwards
Zadie Smith is brilliant. Thank you for this interview. ❤💙
What a brilliant and deliberate mind…
No... and possibly no, if you mean perceptive is the same thing as brilliance. But. your average, well socialized, dog, knows more about the world she offers us.
This is a little gem of an interview. It's disarming when you hear a person you admire greatly say many things that you too have concluded. I really must read my copy of White Teeth. I too buy music when I can afford it. Well done Ezra and thanks to the New York Times.
This was one of the most thought-provoking and insightful interviews I have ever listened to. Startlingly original and subtle. Maybe this will be the last nudge I need to get rid of my behaviour-modifying smart phone!
Always loved this author!! Excellent thoughts and writings! Thank you Ms Smith and NY Times! Id love to see her and our next POTUS meet Ms Kamala Harris. Plus these 2 biracial women are lovely plus look related!
Ezra, u r too damn smart and philosophically sophisticated for my post work mind.
Fantastic interview. Definitely going to pick up one of her novels.
I know she's a writer and I should just stick to her writing, but, I really, really enjoy interviews with her
Excellent, excellent, f*ing excellent.
Awwww, Zadie, I buy music, too! Loved this interview.
How can you listen to that horrible barbaric accent?
Listening to our infinite experience. Our inability to leave the idea of capturing the essence. What is it that we are if we give up the idea that we are somehow.
Weed or mushrooms?
wasn’t aware of this writer, so an unexpected and fascinating conversation
Excellent interview.
thank u
This was wonderful.
Virtues guide you towards the truth through the various types of clouds
This was surprisingly interesting.
How interesting 🤩
But money goes a long way to compensate for ignorance
This one is in the deep end of the Ezra pool. 😊
“Zadie Smith, occasional drug user.” That cracked me up. The rest of this interview was really boring.
Garrulous.
didn't she write some genocide apologia awhile back? smh
“I think, for me”
“I perhaps extrapolate”
“I guess I don’t”
“if I had to, I would call myself”
“I think people are thrown”
In her first paragraph alone, she puts in so many qualifiers to her thought that it all turns into an indefinite mishmash of uncertainty., declining to actually assert something.
"the circumstances they're thrown into are of absolute significance". This is a profound revelation?
"You can't fight fire with air". When I blow out a match, that’s exactly what I do: by blowing cool air, I suddenly lower the temperature so that combustion is no longer possible..
Zadie Smith's writing is a potpourri of unrefined impressions which add up to not very much. That may account for her appeal. But
I've never been able to complete reading a single article of hers, including this interview.
That’s because she is not imposing her view. It’s a more gentle way of giving opinions that leaves room for other opinions too
She’s for the uncalcified
@@nickolette22 I agree nickolette. Someone being clear they're voicing opinions and that they understand they're opinions (and not facts or universal truths) is refreshing and one of the reasons I like Zadie Smith, who could be a lot more arrogant than she is and get away with it completely.
@@Lucysmom26 right! I like to go back to her just to keep in check my compassion levels :) some people make you a better person..
Ugh ,,,,,, this type of elite chatter and virtue hoarding is no longer relevant to me ~
I got here by mistake. This station is complete garbage.
A New York Times Jew and British academic are honestly the last people you should be listening to what they have to say about populism.
If you want to hear what regular people have to say, your average everyday run of the mill folk, ask them yourselves.
I prefer the company offered, thanks.
Great music? Are you friggin kidding me? The music now is garbage. Some of it is fun.......like the Eating the Cats songs and so on. But that is Dr. Demento stuff (which I have loved since I was a kid), but music, good music.....sorry....it barely exists anymore.
Interesting woman. She says she’s black. Are her kids classified as black too? Confusion confusion confusion.
What a bizarre thing to say
Why do you care about someone's race?
If that is all you can take away from this conversation, you have a very dull mind
Why on earth would you care?
Honestly, a disrespectfully ignorant question.
Both were positively cooking throughout this conversation, but especially good perspectives on older loneliness (of the male persuasion) followed by the refuge of marriage 58:16 onwards