A review by mattstebbins
The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith

3.0

Some of these stories were great ("Lele," for instance) and some were clever ("The Liar" comes to mind); some were somewhat familiar ("Hanwell Snr," "Perkus Tooth"), and some were mildly amusing ("Frank," certainly). Most, though, seemed awfully full of themselves and awfully thin on flesh and development... MFA jerk-off work, to be impolite. At least it was a fun concept?

[3 stars for the occasional flash that made me temporarily forget the droll-ness of the rest.]