Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29.
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. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...
Friends, Associates
Ali Smith
Sarah Wood
has continued to collaborate with Smith. Along with Kasia Boddy
, the two have served as editors of literary anthologies like Brilliant Careers (mentioned above) and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off...
Publishing
Ali Smith
AS
published Shire, a volume of four stories inspired by the work of scholar Helena Mennie Shire
, through the small Full Circle Editions press. Smith's partner, Sarah Wood
, provided the artwork for the collection.
AS
, along with her partner Sarah Wood
and academic Kasia Boddy
, published through Virago PressBrilliant Careers, an anthology of a hundred years of women's writing.
A second anthology collaboration from AS
, Sarah Wood
, and Kasia Boddy
was issued by Penguin Modern Classics: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov
to ZZ Packer .
Remarkably too, the print-run made a deliberate switch midway in the order of its two stories—of a fifteenth-century Italian painter and of a modern British teenager—and copies were randomized for distribution, so buyers do not...