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They also movingly discussed Patti’s beloved late husband Fred “Sonic” Smith, and his seismic and enduring influence on her life. Both women are world-renowned performers as well as passionate readers, and they explored the crossover between lyrics and prose, the grounding potential of literature to anchor a life lived in pursuit of creativity, and the power of artistic freedom.
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I love criticism so long as its well written and intelligent – Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa – Toni Kan
A highpoint was the conversation around creatives and their attitude towards reviews and criticisms of their work. While Dua Lipa said “learning to live with reviews” whether bad or good was “one of the hardest things for her to learn to deal with”, Zadie Smith took a more open approach describing criticism as “absolutely essential because it helps develop taste.”
A Brazilian academic is translating Nigerian poet Femi Morgan’s collection Renegade into Portuguese, a project…
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Sally Rooney says her books can no longer be supplied in the United Kingdom after…