Free to What?: Reading Zadie Smith at a Best Western in Texas
While traveling in Texas, Aisha Sabatini Sloan takes in the culture and Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free.”
Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s first essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and published in 2017. A contributing editor for Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics, her writing can be found in The Offing, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, Michigan Quarterly Review, Terrain.org, Callaloo, The Southern Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Essay Daily, Tarpaulin Sky, Drunken Boat, Catapult, Sublevel, Autostraddle, and Guernica. This fall she will be a Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.
While traveling in Texas, Aisha Sabatini Sloan takes in the culture and Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free.”
Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Kiese Laymon in dialogue.