About Mike_Smith

Location: Albuquerque, NM

Age:28

Website: http://www.mystrangenewmexico.com/

Favorite novels: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," by James Agee; "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald; "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote; "Growth of the Soil," by Knut Hamsen, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," by Tom Wolfe; "Jealousy " by Alain Robbe-Grillet, etc.

Favorite writers: James Agee, Dostoyevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Bradbury, Edward Abbey, Scott Thybony, Cecil Adams, J.D. Salinger, etc.

Favorite music: Caribou's "Start Breaking My Heart," Four Tet, Nightmares On Wax, and a variety of instrumental, laidback electronica...

Non-noveling interests: Writing non-novels, history, hiking, canoeing, the desert, books, music, my family, solitude, ghost towns, black holes, time, space, and how strange it is to be anything at all.