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Death en pointe

19 November, 200919 November, 2009 ~ Sarah Ditum

Yesterday‘s Metro praised Zadie Smith for having the “deadly precision of a ballerina”. (Original article not online.)

That’ll be one of those specialist ninja ballerinas with blades in her pointe shoes, then.

Text © Sarah Ditum, 2009. Photo by Gabriela Camerotti, used under Creative Commons.

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I’m a columnist, critic and feature writer with bylines at the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Spectator, the Independent, Eurogamer, Stylist, Grazia, Elle and more. Regular TV and radio appearances, including Newsnight and Today. Available for teaching and talks. Anti-fun feminist. Represented by Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedman.

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