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Sep 2023
26m 45s

Zadie Smith’s Guilty Pleasure is Rap Feu...

Vogue
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Chioma and Chloe talk to Zadie Smith about her style (David Byrne suits and intimidating looks), what she wore to her college interview, internet wormholes she falls into, and how she felt when she finished her new book, The Fraud – her first piece of historical fiction. 

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