Literary
Zadie Smith
- 6:30PM
Moderated by Lorin Stein
London-born novelist Zadie Smith is the author of NW, which was named one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2012”; On Beauty, which won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction; The Autograph Man; and the 2009 essay collection Changing My Mind. Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and is currently a tenured professor of creative writing at New York University.
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Moderator
Lorin Stein is the editor of The Paris Review and an editor at large at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has worked with Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and James Wood. Stein's criticism has appeared in Harper's, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. His translation of Michel Houellebecq's Submission was published last year. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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