'Fail Better' — Zadie Smith

In January of 2007 the great writer's much acclaimed essay entitled "Fail Better" was published in the Guardian in two parts: Part 1 appeared on January 13 and Part 2 a week later on January 20.

Soon after their online publication on the Guardian website both parts disappeared, but not before they were posted elsewhere, where by some miracle they remain up in their entirety nearly 18 years later.

Part 1 is here.

Part 2 is here.

It has long been my opinion that Zadie Smith is on the very short list every year for the Nobel Prize in Literature: the only question in my mind is whether she'll receive it before or after Karl Ove Knausgård.