Comments on: the zadie report https://lailalalami.com/2003/07/the-zadie-report/ Author of The Dream Hotel, The Other Americans, The Moor's Account, Secret Son, and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dud https://lailalalami.com/2003/07/the-zadie-report/#comment-498 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:29:34 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/the-zadie-report/#comment-498 …and a PS to any passing Londoners and Zadiephiles, from the Barbican event list:

McSweeneys vs They Might Be Giants

This high-concept collaboration of words and music has proven to be an extraordinarily entertaining evening. McSweeney’s vs They Might Be Giants is a unparalleled event for big readers and fans of pop music with a brain. Best-selling author, Dave Eggers,(A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), and founder of literary magazine McSweeney’s is joined onstage by innovative rockers, They Might Be Giants. Readings by Eggers and a stellar line-up of special guest authors including Nick Hornby, Zadie Smith and Arthur Bradford round out this incomparable night.

Venue Title: Barbican Hall

4th October

Performance begins: 7.30pm

Performance ends: 11pm

]]> By: Larry Lurex https://lailalalami.com/2003/07/the-zadie-report/#comment-497 Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:27:18 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/the-zadie-report/#comment-497 Kids! Don’t skip school or you’ll end up as a writer!

Who wants to be that poor?

]]> By: Dud https://lailalalami.com/2003/07/the-zadie-report/#comment-496 Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:02:22 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/the-zadie-report/#comment-496 She has got a nice voice, hasn’t she?

BBC London recently broadcast a programme in which Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby chatted and played their favourite records to each other. Zadie reminisced about her schooldays and explained her system of ethical truancy. She’d bunk off a boring lesson to go to the library or skip art to visit a gallery. Returning from one such afternoon at the National, she was persuaded by a friend to enter a Capital Radio karaoke competition in Leicester Square. Zadie’s rendition of The Crusaders’ ‘Street Life’ won the prize. Unfortunately, one of her teachers heard her on the radio and she was in deep shit the next day!

Cue discussion of her and Hornby’s thwarted musical careers. She also mentioned that her kid brother was an aspiring MC but hadn’t got it to together to provide her with a demo to play ahead of the programme. ‘He’ll go far.’observed Hornby drily.

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