Books that made a difference to Zadie Smith: the wielder of the sharpest pen around is wowed by death-affirming poetry, Nabokovian slyness, and--by George!--her first glimpse of female genius.(reading room)(Book Review)

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THERE'S AN IRIS MURDOCH QUOTE THAT I'm always paraphrasing: "Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality." This is the secret of fiction. It offers you a challenge--to try to understand that other people are real in the same way you are. That they are as complex, as sensitive, as capable of being hurt. This is a surprisingly difficult thing to remember when we go about our everyday lives. Also, the present culture encourages the opposite idea, that it's all about you. I suppose I ...

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