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Mark Haskell Smith

Mark Haskell Smith
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of six novels with one-word titles including Moist, Salty, and Blown; as well as the non-fiction books Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup and Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Vulture, Alta, and Literary Hub. He is an associate professor in the MFA program for Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California Riverside, Palm Desert Graduate Center.


On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

Mark Haskell Smith: In Defense of the Ancient Comedian Who Went After Aristotle
August 18, 2021  By Mark Haskell Smith
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One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie

Mark Haskell Smith on Adapting His Book Salty for the Big Screen
September 7, 2017  By Mark Haskell Smith
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Los Angeles: False, Bogus, and Wonderful

David Ulin and Mark Haskell Smith End Up at the Tar Pits, Again
October 2, 2015  By Mark Haskell Smith
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Ping-Pong As Metaphor

In Which Geoff Dyer and Mark Haskell Smith Fail to Discuss the Writer's Life
June 2, 2015  By Mark Haskell Smith
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