White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast

The new millennium brought with it a fresh wave of optimism and excitement for the future. Zadie Smith's best selling debut novel White Teeth embodied this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard. Smith was lauded with critical acclaim and lavished with media attention — an overnight literary sensation at just 24 years old. With special guest Sharmaine Lovegrove, publisher at Dialogue Books, we explore the impact of the novel and the legacy of its author.


Content Warning: Mention of suicide  


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Select books Sharmaine mentions in the episode: 


The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon


Second Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta


The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi


The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi


Blonde Roots, Bernardine Evaristo


Girl, Woman, Other,  Bernardine Evaristo


Queenie, Candice Carty Williams


Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding


 


Select work by Zadie Smith referenced: 


Fences: A Brexit Diary, NY Books


Stormzy at Glastonbury


Intimations


Sharmaines question to Zadie in the Guardian


 


Clips Used: 


Tony Blair wins landslide general election win for Labour (1997) - Newsnight archives


America's Internet Trading Boom (1990) -  


Journeyman Pictures


Tony Blair on immigration (2004) -  London Business School

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