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...When I was writing, I was very determined to prove something," she says, "and that's a shame because that's a bad instinct." What did she have to prove? Perhaps that a young, half-Jamaican, half-white female could write a novel that transcends her personal demographics. "A lot of black writing is this love-in, and I definitely don't write love-ins," she says, adding, "What did people think I was going to write? Some kind of searing slave drama or single-girl-in-London tale...
Smith wanted to write what she terms "a big book," and she has. She exposes the hilarity of the rules we live by--whether they are determined by religion or geography or biology. Immigrants, in particular, face a paradox, for they have broken with the codes of their homeland in search of a better alternative, but the new rules leave them longing for the old rules. White Teeth doesn't harangue or choose sides; it sketches characters that hover on the human edge of caricature. The novel is so sprawling, so audacious, that at times it feels as if Smith...
...next effort is The Autograph Man, a leaner novel about a half-Chinese, half-Jewish autograph hunter that is peopled with porn freaks, movie stars and sexual deviants. She is determined to write a daring book, perhaps more along the lines of American Psycho, which she considers the finest book about the '80s. "I don't want to be on my best behavior anymore," she warns. With this pungent debut, she has certainly earned the right to misbehave...
...reporter's notebook will reveal the following words, scribbled before the show began: "Orpheum-old classic setting but showing signs of age-comparison to Oasis?" When in doubt, turn to journalistic cliches, eh? Oasis' concert last week, however, forced a reconsideration of the review I was going to write...
...like Small Time Crooks, then I go with it. If it's a heavy idea like Interiors, then fine, I'll go with that. It doesn't have anything to do with my outside life, though - it doesn't really involve anything but survival in the room that I write. I'm just so thrilled to have an idea to write and not be empty - if the next idea was a broad comedy, I'd do it. But if it was a comedy about death and famine, by all means, I'd do that too. It's much less thought...