Zadie Smith

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602 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

Zadie Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Lucy Liu / Zadie Smith · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

I smoked too much weed, which can make you very depressed.

I think I have my melancholies, you know, that's a permanent part of my way of being.

So you just, you get used to it.

Like I find writing pretty cathartic.

I don't say it ends melancholy or depression, but it does articulate things that otherwise would just kind of sit there and bother me.

So it's a way of...

of getting things out that I do find quite helpful.

But the melancholy is not going anywhere at this point.

This is part of me.

And life is melancholy.

It would be strange not to feel melancholy about it.

There's a lot of sadness.

Thank you.

Fresh Air · Zadie Smith Asks, What Makes Us Feel Alive? · 15 Dec 2025 podcast

No, I mean, you know, it's definitely aging, but I'm always incredibly grateful for the girl who wrote that book because she enabled my entire life.

So I like to hear about her.

I don't think it's changed that much.

I think I'm always interested in time.

I'm always interested in our, for lack of a better term, like our existential experience, like our experience on this earth.

I'm always fascinated by culture of all kinds.

And that hasn't really aged.

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