White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut

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 Got a favourite culture moment from 2000 you want us to talk about? Suggest an episode idea here. You can also

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White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut is an episode from Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast by Message Heard.

This episode is 47:06 long.

This episode was published on Oct 27, 2020.

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