Hanging with Ms. Smith

Zadie, that is

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Hi Friends,

Because writer’s block can turn into the creative equivalent of famine, this issue includes:

A sip…

Alcohol either enhances creativity or removes inhibitions.

Either way, try an easy traditional red sangria. Get the recipe, your muse will thank you for it.

A shout out…

Novelist, style icon, and creative role model, Zadie Smith, completed her debut, White Teeth, while attending Cambridge University. It sold at auction based on its first 100 pages, she received a six-figure advance, and it became an international bestseller.

At that time, she was a very young twenty-four. She has since taught fiction at Columbia University School of the Arts, joined NYU as a tenured professor, served as an editor or contributor with several major publications, and has written other internationally acclaimed titles.

A sentence…

Prompts gleaned from White Teeth:

• “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”

• “Every moment happens twice: inside …