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Bob Smith

Bob Smith standup and author

About Me

MY BOOK TOUR FOR SELFISH AND PERVERSEPhiladelphia Wednesday, Sept 26th at 5:30-7 PM Giovanni’s Room 345 South 12th St. Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 923-2960215/923-2960Atlanta Thursday, Sept. 27 at 8 pm Outwrite Bookstore and Coffeehouse 991 Piedmont Ave. Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 607-0082Washington D.C. Weds. Oct 3th at 7 pm Lambda Rising Bookstore 1625 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 462-6969Los Angeles Wednesday, October 10 at 7:30 pm A Different Light 8853 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90069 (310) 854-6601San Francisco Thursday, October 11th at 7:30 pm Books, Inc. 2275 Market Street at 16th St. San Francisco 415-864-6777Seattle Friday, October 12th at 7 pm Bailey/Coy Books 414 Broadway E Seattle, WA 98102 206-323-8842 Palm Springs Appearance at the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley Book Festival November 10th and11th Time to be announced Sponsored by Peppertree Books

My Interests

Hiking, Alaska, Birdwatching (i'm in the closet about that though), And the usual threesome for many gay men: Art, Film and Theater. (Although I hate films about theater. What's that about?), archeology, history. I have a house in Santa Fe but live most of the year in New York. I'm pretty curious and adventurous: I've gone rafting down the Copper River in Alaska and also have braved performance art in Soho.

I'd like to meet:

Total hotties with big muscles...oops, sorry wrong website!

Music:

The Psychedelic Furs, Modern English, Depeche Mode and especially Bronski Beat all those eighties new wave type bands. Then I love weirdo things: The soundtrack to Fahrenheit 452 by Bernard Herrman, Native American music, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Madonna, Coldplay etc. Basically, I'm a homo who'd rather listen to pop music than go to the opera.

Movies:

The Birds, All About Eve, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Galaxy Quest, The Lord of the Rings films, Preston Sturges comedies, Jaws, Rear Window and more that i'll add later.

Television:

Yes, I watch it.

Books:

Just about everything by Stephen McCauley, Barbara Pym, Dawn Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, Anton Chekhov, Armistead Maupin, Jane Austen, Bernard Cooper and Ronald Firbank. The Plays of Joe Orton, Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana, Edwad Abbey's Desert Solitaire, Thoreau's Walden, (I love Abbey's Essay about Down the River with Henry Thoreau too.) Robertson Davies' The Deptford Trilogy, David Sedaris' essays and more.QUOTES ABOUT MY NOVEL SELFISH and Perverse:"A thoroughly seductive and satisfying read. It makes you laugh, it makes you horny, it makes you want to fish for salmon." .. Armistead Maupin, TALES OF THE CITY..Selfish and Perverse is witty and hilarious, full of surprising twists, laugh-out-loud observations I wish I were smart enough to have made, and a whole lot of swarthy Alaskan fishermen. Who'd have guessed salmon could be so sexy?.. --Stephen McCauley, author of THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION AND ALTERNATIVES TO SEX"Who is this 'Bob Smith' and why is he reluctant to use his real name? He should be proud, because SELFISH AND PERVERSE is a fantastically entertaining book. Something this funny has no right to also be this beautifully written." -- David Rakoff, author of DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE..Selfish and Perverse is very funny yet ineffably bittersweet, razor sharp yet fair to all. Bob Smith's highly quotable comic metaphors are also poetry." -- Mark O..Donnell, author of Getting Over Homer"Bob Smith fills his book with the kind of witty, insightful observations that inspire readers to repeat their favorite lines to their friends and inspire other writers to contemplate suicide. He has also accomplished the seemingly impossible task of writing a sexy book about fishing." -- Marc Acito, author of HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A NOVEL OF SEX, THEFT, FRIENDSHIP AND MUSICAL THEATER

Heroes:

Marsden Hartley, Oscar Wilde and anyone fighting the Bush's environmental policies. Especially every congressman and Senator who voted against drilling in Alaska!

My Blog

Lambda Book Report Review of Selfish and Perverse

The Lambda Book ReportSelfish and PerverseBob SmithCarroll & Graf .$24.99, 384 pp.By: John de la Parra Authentic gay humor, irony, and wit, where have you been? Sedaris, Rakoff, and Burroughs have sed...
Posted by Bob Smith on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:42:00 PST

Great Review in NY Edge by Edgar Sandoval

Book Reviews "Selfish & Perverse" by Bob Smithby Edgar SandovalEDGE New York City ContributorWednesday Oct 3, 2007After you read a book like The Historian, a lengthy volume about three generation of s...
Posted by Bob Smith on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:37:00 PST

Review and interview in NY Blade

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 BOOKSLove and Laughs Among Fishermen Comedian Bob Smith's debut novel is sexy & poetic.By Trenton Straube Friday, September 07, 2007Nelson Klunker, the "Selfish & Pervers...
Posted by Bob Smith on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:51:00 PST

New Review of Selfish and Perverse

First Reviews:www.afterelton.comHomeThree Gay Books for Augustby Stephen Fraser, Contributing WriterJuly 30, 2007Out comedian Bob Smith (as I remember, the first "mainstream gay comedian") has penned ...
Posted by Bob Smith on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

My New Book

I'm happy to announce my novel Selfish and Perverse is going to be published in September 2007 by Carroll & Graf. My editor will be Don Weise. He's published books by Edmund White and Edward Albee an...
Posted by Bob Smith on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:43:00 PST

Openly Blog

I'm at my house in Santa Fe, getting ready to go on a gay cruise. I'm performing standup. It's going to the Cote D'Azur and the italian Riviera. I was just on a gay cruise in June doing the Greek Isla...
Posted by Bob Smith on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:58:00 PST