NEXT BOOK GOES LIKE THIS
BY ZADIE SMITH
 
kafka, benjamin, kaballah

laughs

laughs

three rabbis trying to fit ever larger objects into smaller cars

belly laugh

ageing movie stars with webbed fingers

existential misery, punctuated by hiccupy giggles (NYTimes review suggested subtitle: Black girl proves both sad *and* funny)

airplane jokes [20 pages]

fame, nature of

women, nature of

god, nature of

nature, nature of

quiet laugh; the kind you feel deep inside curled up in you like a small, hibernating mammal who sleeps inside people.

hysteria

rushed finale/return of the rabbis/names signed in blood/winged monkeys/furry cups/a dark, irremovable spot at the end of it all.