Like Smith, I am not by my nature an activist, and so, as she puts it: “I just do the thing I can do.” The work in front of me. I, too, am grateful to have something to do, whether it’s making a zine or drawing a cactus or writing this blog. On a recent episode of Call Your Girlfriend, however, Smith says she discovered that writing was more than a hobby - Can you imagine? Being Zadie Smith and still thinking of writing as a hobby? - it’s something she needs to do to stay alive. Of the pandemic and lockdown, Smith writes, “The rest of us have been suddenly confronted with the perennial problem of artists: time, and what to do with it… There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man.
She comes around to this very simple truth: “It’s something to do.” Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and.
There’s an essay in Zadie Smith’s Intimationscalled “Something To Do,” in which she thinks about why she writes. My wife says to me – “Go draw something” and then I draw a leaf or a synth or something and I fell better. White Teeth, Swing Time, and On Beauty author Zadie Smith will reflect on our time spent in lockdown in a new collection of essays called Intimations. I love that he talks about drawing as more than representing – as a process, as discovery, as a battery recharger…. My friend one of my favorite drawers, had a great response:
In this video, John Green talks about drawing and productivity and thinking about time and why he’s attempting to draw 170,000 circles. In early summer, Smith released Intimations, a book of essays that captured the mood of those first few months of lockdown my favorite of which was Peonies but maybe the most notable of. I was feeling angry and despondent yesterday, and I drew these two cactus plants on our back porch and immediately felt a little bit better.
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