Name | Kyle Smith |
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Birth name | Kyle Smith |
Birth date | 1966 |
Birth place | East Longmeadow, MA, USA |
Occupation | Novelist, Critic, Journalist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Comic novel |
Subject | Fiction, Film |
Influences | Nick Hornby, Martin Amis |
Website | http://www.kylesmithonline.com Kyle Smith |
Spouse | Sara Austin (2007–present) |
Kyle Smith (born 1966) is an American critic, novelist and essayist. He is a staff film critic for the New York Post. His film reviewing style has been called "an exercise in hilarious hostility" by Entertainment Weekly. He has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal, People magazine, New York magazine, The New York Times, and The Weekly Standard.
The San Francisco Chronicle said of Love Monkey that "Kyle Smith's exceedingly readable and wickedly funny romantic comedy reads sort of like a 'chick flick' for guys but should be required reading for young women, too, with the peek it gives into the male psyche....Smith...is a natural storyteller with an extraordinarily keen ear for dialogue that is real, hip and witty without being too much so - no small feat. His fresh metaphors are laced with funny pop culture references and his characterization is so good I felt as if I was reading about my own friends, as well as myself, at times. One of the most surprising delights of the book is how completely Smith gets women—what they want, what they're sensitive about, what turns them on, and more. And in getting these things he also reveals many of the female sex's hypocrisies—how we are often guilty of the very superficialities we accuse men of."
CNN wrote of Love Monkey, "Watch out guys, someone is spilling our secrets...'Love Monkey' has been called a male version of Sex and the City and an American version of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. It is an achingly accurate depiction of a thirty-something single man....an engaging romp through the mind of a single guy—at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times endearingly touching. The first-time author...understands the life his protagonist is leading and pulls no punches as he exposes the inner life of the 21st-century single guy."
On NPR's "Fresh Air", critic Maureen Corrigan said, "What's hippest about 'Love Monkey is the deft way it resurrects and updates the Dorothy Parker style of talking about New York: brittle, shrewd, self-deprecating, and oh-so-witty. Smith's ruthless humor knows no bounds".
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