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Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.<b>What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.</b>
- Ali Smith,
I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and <b>I’ve still never read anyone like her</b>. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you.
- Jackie Kay,
‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid discovers New York’s many hidden secrets as she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudité.