Whether writing about Brexit or defining the painful and ecstatic parameters of joy, Smith has a near preternatural understanding of the fictions we repeat to ourselves in order to function daily.
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Fifty years later, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, called variously the party of the year, the decade, and the century, proves his definitive final creative act.
Speaking with the author of the Neapolitan Quartet novels and Frantumaglia about why readers have trouble with challenging portrayals of women, the supposed sin of narcissism, and smoking cigarettes.
Reading The Favourite Game made him into my first sex symbol.
The author of The Candidate on pissing off the CBC, the future of the NDP and whether he'd run for election again.
I finally have a word to describe my fear of the fragmented world.
The author of Why We Came to the City on losing someone to cancer too young, and how New York reminds everyone they're not special.
Talking with the author about her new prison-set adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Hag-Seed.
Talking with the author of Here I Am about different notions of home, the downsides of television development, and whether or not he'll ever write another book.
Talking with the author of Beatlebone about fictionalizing the life of John Lennon, the hard time Kate Bush gets in the book, and why rock novels are almost always disasters.
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