INTERVIEWS

Video interview about The Beautiful Miscellaneous Web Interview with Dominic Smith Audio interview with John Aielli from KUT Radio Profile of Texas Writers, including Dominic Smith, in The Texas Observer Happy Accidents: Dominic Smith on The Beautiful Miscellaneous feature in the Austin Chronicle

REQUIRED READING An evergrowing list of my favorite writers & books—in no particular order

James Salter, especially Light Years and A Sport and a Pastime
Geoff Dyer
E. L. Doctorow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (everything)Virginia Woolf, especially Mrs. Dalloway Cormac McCarthy, especially All The Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian
W. G SebaldPaula Fox’s Desperate Characters Deborah EisenbergWilliam TrevorRoberto Bolano
Thomas BernhardJoy WilliamsJoseph Mitchell, especially Up In The Old Hotel Paul BowlesDavid Foster Wallace
Tim WintonDavid MaloufDon DeLilloSalman Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenCharles Baxter
Denis JohnsonAndrea BarrettKazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day Peter CareySaul Bellow
Charles Johnson's Middle PassageTobias WolffMichael ChabonAnnie ProulxNabokov, especially Lolita
Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road Raymond Carver's short stories Frank Conroy’s Midair Barthelme’s Sixty Stories J. D. Salinger
Christina Stead Patrick White Jim CraceDickens Joseph Conrad
Michael Cunningham Chekhov, the stories Dostoevsky Kafka
James Joyce
FitzgeraldEudora WeltyEthan Canin's Emperor of the Air and Blue RiverAnnie DillardJoan Didion
John Cheever Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Smith's gifts as a storyteller and writer are obvious, sometimes overwhelming.” —Baltimore Sun
Smith has an artist's eye...” —Detroit Free Press
A richly promising start to the literary career of
Mr. Smith.” —Dallas Morning News
Highly entertaining...Smith is fascinating...” —The New York Times Book Review

BIOGRAPHY

Dominic grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly.

His awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. In 2006, his debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. It also received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Dominic's second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was optioned for a film by Southpaw Entertainment. His third novel—Bright and Distant Shores— was published in 2011. It was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize, two of Australia's foremost literary awards.

Dominic serves on the fiction faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University.

The rummage of books in my study...one of these days I need to add some shelves. My idea of bookish heaven: Dutch booksellers comissioned Merkx +Girod architects to build a bookstore inside an old Dominican church in Maastricht, Netherlands. Photo of Sydney Harbour from a recent trip back.