In the acknowledgements of her new novel NW, along with the names of friends, family, editors and publishers, Zadie Smith also thanks freedom and self-control “for creating the time”. Every writer needs the freedom to be creative and the self-control to stick with a project, but Smith has something rather more 21st century in mind
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