01467cam a2200277 4500 60676878 TxAuBib 20100310120000.0 090605s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009023419 9781594202377 hc $26.95 1594202370 hc $26.95 (OCoLC)318411593 TxAuBib Smith, Zadie. Changing my mind : occasional essays / Zadie Smith. (hardcover - ivory spine.) New York : Penguin Press, 2009. xiv, 306 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Reading. Foreword -- F. Kafka, everyman -- What does soulful mean? -- E.M. Forster, middle manager -- Pnin and reality -- The difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace -- Middlemarch and everybody -- Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling -- Oliver! -- One week in Liberia -- Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Bellissima -- At the movies, 2006 -- Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas -- Accidental hero -- Dead man laughing. A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling.". 20100310. Essays. TXMLR