Salon@615-Zadie Smith with Ann Patchett

[@jacklu1190]

Does anyone else feel smarter/wiser afterward just by listening to her talk?

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Amen.

[@ianmartinezcassmeyer]

Ann Patchett isn't a journalist, and yet she can get these normally diffident people to speak their minds honestly. This is how you do an interview. You ask a straightforward question and you, the interviewer, shut up. And of course, Zadie is always a joy to listen to, brilliant as she is.

[@howardkoor2796]

Yes. I agree

[@rome8180]

Zadie Smith is just brilliant. I think I like her more as a literary and cultural thinker than I do as a novelist.

[@tandysolomon8285]

Camilla - What was the topic? I’d love to hear more.

[@myemailaccount3046]

yeah Camilla Palmer we want to know. What was your thesis on?

[@shttc900]

I would never subject my guests to chairs without armrests!

[@debcurreenauthor7985]

Great light hearted chat but so very informative. Good to finally hear Zadie talk about her life and books.

[@CholaConCello]

Interviewer was tough to bear. Brava Zadie, for elegance and authenticity.

[@henrymurray8810]

Always refreshing, honest, interesting, amusing, relaxing good banter.

[@faustlacrimosa]

The moment at 30:30 is just so encouraging

[@thomasbje3843]

"There is no gab between what you see on tv and the man". Barak Obama.

[@noelsphinx3968]

The presenter is a class act

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Ann Patchett - class writer, too.

[@stevenlee2484]

1:01 Wonder if she's greeting Claudia Rankine... 🤔

[@milojetkins]

and Kayla said, "I want to be a ninja, I want to be a ninja, I want to be a ninja, I want to be a ninja....

[@estherlewis9905]

3w

[@deeproff1294]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍

[@khloe38]

which book are they discussing? i guess i could look it up but just wanted to be certain.

[@eszterszep9163]

Swing Time

[@tandysolomon8285]

And Ann's novel Commonwealth.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

She just cuts to the chase of being black in these cultures. Permanent state of emergency. When will we get it?

[@suesheification]

I'm that silent girl that no one notices

[@ekirla1]

!!!!!

[@cs6078]

We live in a democracy, not an aristocracy.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Bwahahaha

[@notcosteffective9920]

Tell that to the corporations who own all these politicians

[@greatunborn]

I find Zadie Smith in the first few minutes of this interview insufferably superior towards a political culture not her own. She also exaggerates the difference in pay between that of a British prime minister (which is not a pittance) and the U.S. president.

[@TheRealJanKafka]

"I find Zadie Smith in the first few minutes of this interview insufferably superior towards a political culture not her own." A phenomenon that is wholly indicative of perceptual and cognitive difficulties (perhaps bigotry/prejudice as well) on your part. The sort of thing you describe is nowhere to be found in the interview.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

She's still lowballing arrogance compared to you. America is a nation of recent immigrants. Political culture, pfft- you mean theft and enslavement?