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Russell Smith
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Russell Claude Smith (born 2 August 1963) is a Canadian novelist, newspaper columnist, and expert on men's clothing and style.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Smith was educated at the Université de Paris and Queen's University.
Smith is one of Canada's most famous "urban" novelists; that is, unlike the traditional perception of Canadian literature as being about predominantly rural settings and themes, Smith writes specifically about big city life. Fairly or not, this has led some critics to label him a shallow writer, more concerned with chronicling clothing labels and nightclub drinks than with articulating grand, complex themes. Smith's defenders, on the other hand, point out that Smith's fiction reflects the day-to-day reality of many young professional Canadians' lives more closely than many other Canadian writers.
Smith has two weekly columns in The Globe and Mail newspaper. One is in the arts section and covers Canadian culture and the arts scene in Toronto, and the other is in the fashion section and discusses men's clothing.
In 2006, Smith hosted the summer series And Sometimes Y, an exploration of language, on CBC Radio One. As of January 2007 a new season is being broadcast.
In 2006, he became editor of the online men's advisory service XYYZ.ca.
- How Insensitive - 1994 ISBN 0-88984-143-8 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Noise - 1998
- Young Men - 1999
- The Princess and the Whiskheads - 2002
- Diana: A Diary in the Second Person - 2002
- Muriella Pent - 2004
- Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide To Dress - 2005