Dominic's website
An interview with Dominic
A profile of emerging writers, including Dominic
An interesting article about synesthesia
A New York Times article on uncovering hidden savant tendencies in "normal" people
Dominic's website
An interview with Dominic
A profile of emerging writers, including Dominic
An interesting article about synesthesia
A New York Times article on uncovering hidden savant tendencies in "normal" people
readers, Beat poets, Holden Caulfield, Mrs. Dalloway, jugglers, Bob Dylan, you.
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"