Russell Smith
Russell Smith
American country music singer who had a hit single with the song "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight."
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth17 June 1949
CountryCanada
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
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What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.
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There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
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Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you're over 50, different rules apply.
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
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No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.
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Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
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It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.
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The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.
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Whether it was accidental or not, there was contact from the shoulder or elbow around the neck area. It's on report.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
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USTR unilateral actions would violate the WTO? That is something that USTR is aware of just as we are aware of it,
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Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.