Comments on Another Reason to Love Her

Good for her! I too heart Z. Smith. Literary prizes aren't races where, no matter how slow the competitors, a winner can be declared. I will be eager to read the work of someone who does win the prize since I am now aware that excellence in writing will be honored rather than just the best story of the bunch.

Zadie Smith's name (and book White Teeth) have been popping up in papers/blogs/conversations LIKE CRAZY these past couple of weeks. I've even seen an unusually high number of people reading her book on the bus lately. I liked the book and have read it a few times, but wasn't it published in 2000? And her new on in '05? I kinda wish that the literary circle would [for lack of me thinking of any other way to put it] move on from her and begin focusing on new fantastically accessible authors.

@2: Who are these new, fantastically accessible authors? Do tell, and I'll stop re-reading White Teeth!

Maybe she's right, maybe she's wrong, but she's fucking pretentious as hell. I hate people like that. I've liked her books - but probably won't bother reading another.