Russell Claude Smith (born 2 August 1963) is a Canadian novelist and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives.
His early novels, How Insensitive (1994) and Noise (1998), are satirical and comic portrayals of big-city life and the sexual mores of young people. How Insensitive was nominated for the Governor General's Award, at that time the most prestigious Canadian literary prize. Noise was published in German ...
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Russell Claude Smith (born 2 August 1963) is a Canadian novelist and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives.
His early novels, How Insensitive (1994) and Noise (1998), are satirical and comic portrayals of big-city life and the sexual mores of young people. How Insensitive was nominated for the Governor General's Award, at that time the most prestigious Canadian literary prize. Noise was published in German as Glamour by List Verlag.
His book of short stories, Young Men, followed in 1999. The opening story in that collection, "Party Going", won the Canadian National Magazine Award for fiction in 1997.
He then published an illustrated fantasy novella, The Princess And The Whiskheads, an allegory about the role of art in a metropolis. The illustrations were by Wesley Bates.
His pornographic novel, Diana: A Diary In The Second Person (2003), was published by Gutter Press under the pseudonym Diane Savage. The novel was republished, under his own name...
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