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Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.

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From the Ice Bowl to the Great Heathen Army.

And the head of Oliver Cromwell.

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This is the BookRive podcast.

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

And today we're talking about Zadie Smith's new essay collection, Dead and Alive.

Rebecca, this was going to be a Patreon episode, but because of programming notes, life things,

also we had something else slotted in that we didn't feel that excited about, and we both read this,

like, let's bring this in. We can talk together about one of our favorite authors newest books again it's not a novel not a short story collection

not a memoir but a collection of essays short pieces speeches i guess i was surprised to see how many

these were e Ulogies.

Some that are original and many of which have appeared elsewhere. It's a collection of

Zadie Smith's writing. And we're going to talk about it. There's quite a few. There's not really

a thoroughgoing line to talk about. But I thought we might do a couple of things if this is

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