Zadie Smith on the truth
10-25-2011
Novelist and critic Zadie Smith will be speaking Friday at the Hannah Arendt Center conference “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age Without Facts.” In her Rules for Writers published last year in The Guardian, Smith declares, “Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
Read an engaging interview with Smith from The Literateur, as well as her essay on the honorable pursuit of the writer, “Fail Better.”