Synopsis
‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid discovers New York’s many hidden secrets as she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudité.
Details
08 August 2024272 pages
9781529077049Imprint: Picador
Reviews
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.Ali Smith
I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and I’ve still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you.Jackie Kay
