Zadie Smith

Hip hop parodist Doc Brown

Sometimes laboured, but poignant, moving, and convincing

6 Aug 2010

There are three things you should know about London’s hip hop parodist Doc Brown. One: he’s superstar author Zadie Smith’s little brother. Two: he’s had several brushes with pop success, having toured with De La Soul and Mark Ronson. Three: more than…

Doc Brown: Rapper turned stand-up hits Edinburgh

Unfamous rapper turned on to comedy by big sister Zadie Smith

16 Jul 2010

Rapper geek turned stand-up Doc Brown has always felt like an outcast despite moving in some rarefied media circles. Claire Sawers discovers that he’s fine talking about his famous author sister. For now …

Best of a decade: Books

2 Dec 2009

1. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (2006) 2. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) 3. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections (2001) 4. James Ellroy – The Cold Six Thousand (2001) 5. A L Kennedy – Paradise (2004) 6. Louise…

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

19 Nov 2009

(Hamish Hamilton) As she notes in her foreword, Zadie Smith had written her latest book without even knowing it. All it took was one person to point out that since she burst onto the scene brandishing her White Teeth, Smith has committed thousands of…

Couple of bookworms - Literary couples

25 Jun 2009

Inspired by Glen David Gold and Alice Sebold, Brian Donaldson peeks at the dust jackets to uncover other literary couples Jonathan Safran Foer & Nicole Krauss As a teenager, Nicole Krauss had a crush on German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

Zadie Smith (ED) - The Book of Other People

29 Nov 2007

ANTHOLOGY The Book of Other People (Hamish Hamilton) ‘Write a short story about a person,’ said Zadie Smith to 23 of fiction’s finest. And they did, each author taking the remit into a vastly different direction. From a New York socialite to a human…