Musings on children's and YA literature, the academy, and the relationship between them, from an English professor and mother.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

not done yet

Zadie Smith has more to say about reading!

My favorite sentence (so far; I need to read it all again) from this week's installment:

"Fiction confronts you with the awesome fact that you are not the only real thing in this world."

I talked about part one of this essay briefly here.

Now I have to go read her novels, obviously.

(edited to fix the link)

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