Darryl Pinckney & Zadie Smith on Achievement & Beyoncé

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Darryl Pinckney & Zadie Smith on Achievement & Beyoncé

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This week, we welcome two award-winning authors: American writer Darryl Pinckney and popular English novelist Zadie Smith. In this wide-ranging conversation, Pinckney and Smith talk about race, class, and Pinckney’s new novel, “Black Deutschland.”

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