Due Thursday, 2/1, by the start of class.

Compare and contrast the lecture version of “Speaking in Tongues,” which Smith delivered in front of an audience at the main branch of the New York Public Library, and the written version, which was published first in the New York Review of Books and later in Smith’s collection of essays. How did the experience of listening to the lecture differ from the experience of reading the text? What stood out as differences and similarities? Why do you think Smith made the changes that she did while adapting the lecture into an essay?

Length: 250-400 words

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