Intimations by Zadie Smith, Read by the Author

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Listening to award-winning author Zadie Smith read Intimations, her collection of six personal essays about life in the year 2020, is such a transcendent experience that when done, you’ll want to start again from the beginning. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Smith’s audiobook, which she reads with a smooth, warm, London-born voice and a quick but not too fast pace. The witty, observant, thoughtful essays touch on the pandemic, womanhood, America, families, classism and racism, reading and writing, and what makes life worthwhile.

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