Archive for category: People

Sub-literate debate about decline in literature    (2021.07.01)

Lydia Perović (no relation) interviews Russell Smith, and gets everything wrong that could be gotten wrong, from facts to copy to mondegreens to ‘apostrophes and ‘quotation marks’

Most interesting man in America    (2020.01.05)

Mr. RUSSELL HARVARD is plausibly the most interesting man in America

Are Michael Malice better than other people?    (2018.10.31)

☑ Yes.

Buxtonism    (2017.12.09)

I have learned a great deal from my distant acquaintance Bill Buxton

‘Shirtlifter’ “LGBT”    (2015.09.14)

I do wish Steve MacIsaac would stop saying “LGBT”

Russell Smith changes his mind, apparently    (2015.03.14)

A mere 18 years later, Russell Smith changes his mind about Bruce LaBruce

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Ben Hammersley again proves his worth    (2011.09.12)

In another context, Renaissance man Ben Hammersley’s speech to the British security intelligentsia would be called speaking truth to power

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!