Russell Smith

Russell Smith reads from his novel Muriella Pent

Published by: Doubleday Canada

Time of Reading: 5:24

Smith was a Governor General's award finalist for his first novel How Insensitive in 1994. Muriella Pent was named novel of the year by Amazon.ca. This summer he's hosting And Sometimes Y, a CBC Radio show about language.

"Smith writes some of the most luminous prose in Canadian fiction.... He mines and refines the best of what has come before on the way to making it his own."
— The Montreal Gazette

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