Dominic Smith
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My new novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, comes out June 5, 2007
Male
38 years old
AUSTIN, Texas
United States
Last Login: 6/13/2009
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Dominic Smith's Interests
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| General | photography, meditation, hiking, camping, fiction, jazz, cargo cults (reading about them), travel | | Music | Bob Dylan, The Be Good Tanyas, Bebel Gilberto, Blackalicious, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Elliott Smith, Gotan Project, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Nick Drake, Thelonious Monk, Thievery Corporation | | Movies | The Graduate, Barton Fink, Hudsucker Proxy, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Silence of the Lambs, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Pulp Fiction, My Dinner with Andre, Miller's Crossing, Office Space, Anchor Man, Last Tango in Paris, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Tuvulu | | Television | There are few shows that compel me, but a few include House, The Sopranos, and The Office (British and US versions). Little Britain (BBC)...and I'm strangely drawn to obscure nature documentaries. | | Books | Some of my favorites:
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The God of Small Things" Arandhuti Roy, "Housekeeping" Marilynne Robinson, "Light Years" James Salter, "Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey" J.D. Salinger, "White Noise" and "Underworld" Don DeLillo, "Lolita" Nabokov, "Jesus' Son" and "Angels" Denis Johnson, "Oscar and Lucinda" and "Bliss" Peter Carey, "Waterland" Graham Swift
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Dominic Smith's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Occupation: | Writer |
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| Critical Praise for "The Beautiful Miscellaneous" | |
"Fantastic...an utterly fresh look at how a child can grow beyond parental expectations and find the genius of being himself." People, 4 stars
"...[a] finely modulated second novel...the unerringly true dialogue is a delight...a luminous addition to novels about fathers and sons..." Kirkus Reviews
"With an exquisite ear not just for language but for emotional truth as well, Dominic Smith has written an ambitious and strikingly unusual tale about what it's like to grow up in the shadow of a brilliant father and under the force of his expectations. I finished this book in awe of Smith's imagination--and of his enormous heart." --Julia Glass, author of "Three Junes" and "The Whole World Over"
"The Beautiful Miscellaneous is one of the most original coming-of-age stories I’ve read in a long time. It’s about gawkiness, particle physics, bereavement, and memory, but it’s also a dazzling inquiry into a universe that is at once breathtakingly elegant and irrevocably mundane. Anomalies, graces, the tedium of grief—it’s all here, cast in Dominic Smith’s smooth, dazzling prose."
--Anthony Doerr, author of "The Shell Collector" and "About Grace"
"The gifts of knowledge that failure brings is the subject of this deft and generous novel about fathers and sons. The phenomenon of love being still, pretty much, the most extraordinary phenomenon of them all, withstanding the ambitions of lesser dreams." --Joy Williams, author of "Honored Guest" and "The Quick and the Dead"
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