Drew Nellins Smith, Author at The Millions

Essays

Let’s Not Get It On: The Indefensible Sex Scene

Drew Nellins Smith - 6.15.2016 | 20

How can you take me there if the word “loins” is used even once? How can you take me there if you won’t admit that there are smells? And pubic hairs that must occasionally be plucked from the tip of your tongue or hocked up discreetly in the shower sometime later.

Drew Nellins Smith - 6.15.2016 | 20

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Reviews

A Perfect Dose of Humor and Insight: On Rick Moody’s ‘Hotels of North America’

Drew Nellins Smith - 11.18.2015 | 6

I am not a seeker of funny books, nor do I look to fiction for laffs, or even laughs, but this book had me giggling so often and so loudly that I began to annoy the person with whom I dwell.

Drew Nellins Smith - 11.18.2015 | 6

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Essays

The Voice Trap: On the Perils of Authorial Parochialism

Drew Nellins Smith - 10.8.2015 | 10

I’d love to see what Proust might have done in another voice, in, say, science fiction or with the story of a pair of street urchins. Or how Chandler might have written differently to tell the story of a great romance, stretching beyond his comfort zone where something entirely fresh might be born.

Drew Nellins Smith - 10.8.2015 | 10

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Essays

That’s Too Much: The Problem with Prolific Writers

Drew Nellins Smith - 9.2.2015 | 25

Lately I’ve been struck by the notion that there might be no books more lost than those buried in the overwhelming bibliographies of authors who have simply published too damn much.

Drew Nellins Smith - 9.2.2015 | 25

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Reviews

Two Brits Stew: Lars Iyer’s Dogma

Drew Nellins Smith - 2.21.2012 | 5

This book is surreal, brainy, plotless, and arguably pointless. It is also brilliantly written and very funny, operating like a combination between Waiting for Godot and Withnail and I.

Drew Nellins Smith - 2.21.2012 | 5

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