Essays of the public pen | The Australian

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'THIS book was written without my knowledge," says Zadie Smith in the preface to Changing my Mind. By her account, just as life is what happens while you're busy making plans, this collection of essays assembled itself by accident when Smith found herself unable to complete her fourth novel or what she calls a "solemn, theoretical" book about writing called Fail Better.

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