Michael Farris Smith is the author of Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. But the publication of Nick will change all that, and wider readership will understand the attraction of this fearless writer who transcends literary limits and boundaries and plays by his own rules.įull Review in the New York Journal of Books: a book review by Claire Fullerton: Nick () Michael Farris Smith

Referred to as MFS by those who take his work personally because his stories do the talking for a certain strata of a particular region, in some ways Farris Smith’s clear, direct, and economic voice is an acquired taste even as his career prospers. You are in-crowd if you’re hip to this writer who seemed to inherit the tool kit of the great Southern writers before him. You’re cool if you follow this Oxford, Mississippi author. It will take hours to wipe the awestruck look off your face after reading the last line of the anxiously anticipated Nick by Michael Farris Smith, a writer with a wildly enthusiastic fan base that fancies itself insiders to Farris Smith’s gritty esotericism. Its impact is profound, its resonance subterranean.” “The story of Nick is the story of one lost soul on automatic pilot written in four compelling parts that dovetail to weave a psychic template of a WWI survivor.

Happy Release day to author Michael Farris Smith! I enjoyed Nick immensely!

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