![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps their great-grandchildren would find a stash of their journals and likely, after reading a few, pitch them in the trash. But if it were only something to do, Smith and many other fine writers probably wouldn’t get published. ![]() She goes on to say that writing is “something to do.” Of course. She finds most of them to be somewhat self-aggrandizing and not very helpful to the aspiring audience for whom they are meant. Smith starts the essay by noting that many writers (including herself) have written books or articles about how to write or why write. The most moving for me of the six essays is called Something to Do. I have recently finished reading Zadie Smith’s new book of six essays, Intimations, musings during the time of the Coronavirus. ![]()
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