Mark Haskell Smith's Blog: LA Times Review of RAW: A Love Story

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Blown hits bookstores on June 12th and the early reviews are in. Check out what Publishers Weekly had to say here https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780... and Kirkus Reviews was equally enthusiastic https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...

It's a perfect adventure read for summer time. Sea breezes, sex, and a hilarious critique of the failures of capitalism. Enjoy!

GUN SHY, the film adaptation of my novel Salty, is coming to theaters in the US on Sept. 8th. The film is really fun. Antonio Banderas is a rockstar playing a rockstar. You can check out the trailer here: https://simonwest.productions/2017/08...

GUN SHY, the film adaptation of my novel Salty>, is coming to theaters in the US on Sept. 8th. The film is really fun. Antonio Banderas is a rockstar playing a rockstar. You can check out the trailer here: https://simonwest.productions/2017/08...

The movie version of my novel Salty is in the can (and in Cannes) and set to be released in the USA on September 8th, 2017. It's really fun and madcap and, if you know the book, Antonio Banderas is exceptional as addled rock star Turk Henry. The movie has been re-titled and is now called Gun Shy but that doesn't stop it from being salty.

You can read more here. http://variety.com/2017/film/news/ant...

Here's a little piece I wrote about books that help you deal with all your books. http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketco...

I write about sexy words over at the Los Angeles Review of Books http://lareviewofbooks.org/short-take...

LA Times Book Critic David Ulin and I drink beer and talk about books and associated things and it ends up here: http://logger.believermag.com/post/73...

This is a really well-written look at books that deal with writers who make their living writing things that maybe they would prefer they didn't write.

http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/em...

Check it out!

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketco...

Kirkus gave Heart of Dankness a great review when it was first published, but I was really thrilled to see that the added the book to their "hot list" of 12 Travel & Adventure books.

Check it out:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/t...