Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly. His awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. In 2006, his debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Dominic serves on the fiction faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University. Find out more at www.dominicsmith.net.
"The Beautiful Miscellaneous is one of the most original
coming-of-age stories I've read in a long time. It's about
gawkiness, particle physics, bereavement, and memory, but it's also
a dazzling inquiry into a universe that is at once breathtakingly
elegant and irrevocably mundane. Anomalies, graces, the tedium of
grief -- it's all here, cast in Dominic Smith's smooth, dazzling
prose." -- Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector and About
Grace
"The gifts of knowledge that failure brings is the subject of this
deft and generous novel about fathers and sons. The phenomenon of
love still being, pretty much, the most extraordinary phenomenon of
them all, withstanding the ambitions of lesser dreams." -- Joy
Williams, author of Honored Guest and The Quick and the Dead
"With an exquisite ear not just for language but for emotional
truth as well, Dominic Smith has written an ambitious and
strikingly unusual tale about what it's like to grow up in the
shadow of a brilliant father and under the force of his
expectations. I finished this book in awe of Smith's imagination --
and of his enormous heart." -- Julia Glass, author of Three Junes
and The Whole World Over
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