Feel Free: Nick Laird & Zadie Smith

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  • Опубліковано 18 лип 2018
  • We were joined by Nick Laird and Zadie Smith to discuss their new collections-of poetry and essays, respectively-both entitled Feel Free.
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  • @Sandy-ge6wo
    @Sandy-ge6wo 6 років тому +33

    She seems loving and passionate and he seems empathetic and giving. They're kind of couple goals when writer couples rarely are xD

  • @Phantomballerinas
    @Phantomballerinas 5 років тому +19

    so inspiring seeing two brilliant human artist living sharing and working together AND raising kids.....#they are lucky to have found each other fate and havent wasted it...

  • @susannahXD
    @susannahXD 5 років тому +13

    "Language is it's own thing. It operates independent from you, it has it's own life."

  • @beag4961
    @beag4961 5 років тому +3

    To organizers of the meeting, I think Nick's poems and poetry in general would benefit more from being read in slightly more suitable surroundings, with less distractions, something like by a fireplace, or around a kitchen table in a quiet of dawn, than on a busy street:) But I'm grateful for being introduced to them all the same and will read them, in the quiet of dawn.

    • @brainsareus
      @brainsareus 4 роки тому +1

      Interviewer talks too much

    • @Wrenasmir
      @Wrenasmir 3 роки тому +1

      It’s funny, I wanted him to read during the peak of the environmental noise, as the ambulances reached their dynamic height, I wanted him to read amongst those sounds of a world that doesn’t stop for poetry, for him to meet the challenge of the urban disjecta and say, what do these poems sound like now.

  • @mariams307
    @mariams307 5 років тому +2

    When he said that's it...I was like 'nooooooo', I need this!

  • @thomasbje3843
    @thomasbje3843 2 роки тому

    Where do I find Shakespeare and Bookshop? Just next to the fire station.

  • @beag4961
    @beag4961 5 років тому +5

    I can't believe Zadie stole his title and afterwards asked him to give it up! I guess I feel now something similar to what she felt when she had to reconciliate her admiration for Wolf with some less respect worthy facts ;) So, inspired by their very title, I feel free to express myself: Zadie! What a behaviour! :)

  • @andrewroberts8139
    @andrewroberts8139 5 років тому +1

    Wonderful from start to finish. Who is the capable interviewer? And are we in New York?

    • @jessicafoster8738
      @jessicafoster8738 5 років тому +1

      The Famous Shakespeare and Co -- Paris!!

    • @andrewroberts8139
      @andrewroberts8139 5 років тому

      @@jessicafoster8738 No, I don't think so - I think it must be the New York one, unless you know different

    • @jessicafoster8738
      @jessicafoster8738 5 років тому +3

      @@andrewroberts8139 Well the storefront of the NYC one is totally different, there'd be no room for this kind of gathering, it'd be manic-- whereas this is definitely the iconic green storefront of the Paris store. Plus I think the interviewer mentioned Paris, them both being there on behest of NYU. Also this interviewer lives in Paris. But nonetheless a great interview, no? I wonder how Laird feels with this literary rockstar wife. Perhaps he does indeed feel free. Perhaps also frustrated.

    • @andrewroberts8139
      @andrewroberts8139 5 років тому +1

      @@jessicafoster8738 Thanks for setting me straight! Yes, that had occurred to me too. Do we ask that question more of a man in that position than a woman?

    • @Rey972
      @Rey972 5 років тому +1

      definitely Paris, nearby the infamous Notre Dame...

  • @komal2491
    @komal2491 6 років тому +1

  • @brainsareus
    @brainsareus 4 роки тому +1

    The fucking interviewer loves the sound of his own voice!!

  • @originaljunglist1008
    @originaljunglist1008 6 років тому

    36:25 - 1 year ago, 1month, 6 days.

  • @donfriend1035
    @donfriend1035 4 роки тому +1

    Zadie says that the cladding on Grenfell tower was put up for aesthetic reasons. I read they it was to keep the flats more insulated.

  • @NeverLetLoveGo
    @NeverLetLoveGo 5 років тому +2

    “Umm yeah it’s on... hi”, oh how awkward you can be, Zadie.

  • @berniemccann8935
    @berniemccann8935 5 років тому

    I wonder, what is a "black Englishwoman"?

    • @Peter32tjrksor
      @Peter32tjrksor 5 років тому +21

      exactly what it sounds like

    • @feyn5869
      @feyn5869 3 роки тому +10

      I wondered what a "twat" was, then I had that question answered.

  • @notcosteffective9920
    @notcosteffective9920 Рік тому

    Goddamn, Smith