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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, Zadie Smith

An accidental collection of essays, in which Zadie Smith riffs about whatever she wants and we read it The first season of The Wire was…

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Paperback Social May 16, 2018

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Welcome To Paperback Social I’m Charlene and I run Paperback Social. It’s a blog focused on books mostly- reading them, talking about them, laughing…

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