Mark Haskell Smith’s fifth novel, Raw: A Love Story, is forthcoming in December. He is also the author of Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup. He teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at UCR Palm Desert.
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Radio Hour: “Naked at Lunch,” Female Comedy Writers, and Vicious Disequilibrium
Mark Haskell Smith talks about his research into nudism for his new book "Naked at Lunch." Also Betsy Borns, Dinah Lenney, and the crisis in Greece....
Writing in Megacities
Dhaka-based author Saad Z. Hossain ambles around Los Angeles with local author Mark Haskell Smith as they talk about writing in their respective cities....
Big Cheese: Michael Paterniti's "The Telling Room"
Michael Paterniti falls in love with a cheese, or rather with the idea of this cheese, because he goes for years without tasting the creamy insides of his beloved queso....
Always Raining: On Deborah Levy’s “Swimming Home”
DEBORAH LEVY’S NEW BOOK Swimming Home is constructed like a play — with a central stage and a cast of characters, ...
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....
Video: David Mitchell
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell....
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
Half Termite, Half Elephant
A shotgun blast of multitentacled musings, it splatters the author's obsessions across the cultural landscape...
Year of the Fire Cock
The book is so unrelentingly erotic and explicit that it could, if you're not careful, cause chafing....
