Zadie Smith is one of the best writers of her generation.

She's smart and funny and she makes being smart seem really cool.

In her new collection of essays Feel Free Out Now,

she talked about Jay-Z and Get Out and Facebook and visual artists

and classic books and family and Bieber, yep, Justin Bieber.

So I thought, I should just email Zadie and say, hey, can we just talk about everything?

And she said, yeah.

This is a really fun one.

Today, Zadie Smith on Toray Show.

Music I've known her almost 20 years.

I interviewed her for MTV 2 when White Teeth was out.

And it's been a thrill to watch Zadie grow and operate as a public

intellectual, dropping great novels and dope essays and showing herself to just be a really

interesting person to listen to. I mean, putting the awesomeness of her accent aside. In person,

Zadie's as smart and as fun as her greatest books.

And she's disarmingly humble in a way that just makes you want to root for her success.

So settle in. I asked her to talk to me for an hour, and we sat there for two.

We sat there in our studio at 78th and Broadway and just, this is the most fun episode I've had yet.

So I'm proud to present Zadie Smith on Toray Show.

So let's talk about writing.

What do you love about it?

I like it.

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