Zadie Smith on Forster and Wallace

On Beauty
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04.15.2007

British novelist Zadie Smith tells Steve Paulson why she admires writers who don’t sound just like her. Her book “On Beauty” owes a lot to E.M. Forster’s “Howard’s End.” And among her peers, Smith says she greatly admires David Foster Wallace.

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