Tori Schacht '08 Interviews British Author Zadie Smith While Studying at Oxford

Tori Schacht '08 conducted an interview with young British author Zadie Smith for "The Oxford Compass," while studying abroad for the 2006-07 academic year. Schacht is an English major currently spending the year studying at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Schacht met Smith at a reception after she gave a talk. The interview will be published in The Oxford Compass, a student-run literary Web site that's associated with the Oxford Student Publications Ltd. Zadie Smith has written three novels and a non-fiction book about writing, Fail Better (2006). In 2002-03 she was in the U.S. as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.