![]() ![]() ![]() )Īli Smith’s seasonal quartet, which began with the novel Autumn in 2017 Smith’s “staring into space and wandering around the room” reminds me in particular of Iris Murdoch’s writing process. (Actually, I’d argue that this doesn’t make Smith “lazy” at all, but rather quite typical-many, many writers have talked about working in this very same way. I spend lots of time staring into space and wandering around the room, picking things up, opening books, putting them down again.” “If I’m not writing to meet a deadline, I tend to spend the mornings doing admin-emails and stuff-and then start writing about two or three in the afternoon and work through until about eight or nine,” Smith said. Once she’s up and about, she doesn’t start writing immediately. That same year, Smith told the Paris Review about her daily routine: She usually goes to bed at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning and gets up at about 9:00 a.m. Today is the Scottish novelist’s 57th birthday, and tomorrow is the publication day for her latest novel, Summer, which completes the acclaimed quartet of seasonal novels that she began in 2017. ![]()
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