When Zadie Smith Came To Brooklyn

Last Friday in Fort Greene, in shouting distance of Brooklyn’s brand new Barclays Center, you’d have been right to assume the queues on Lafayette Avenue were for a rockstar. Wall-to-wall, shoulder-to-shoulder, arms raised in air, (‘cos there’s zero elbow room down here…) – Zadie Smith popped by Greenlight Bookstore to sign copies of her latest, NW, from Penguin Press. “You lot were clearly too cheap to spring for Jay-Z tickets, or you’d not be spending Friday night in a bookshop,” […]

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