Random Thoughts, The Book

by Jack Smith

A funny look at our strange world. Primarily based on humor columns that Jack has written for the last dozen years for a city magazine. Random thoughts about politics, TV, family, the English language, food, Europe and the good old days.

142 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2013

About the author

Jack Smith’s novel Hog to Hog won the 2007 George Garrett Fiction Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2008. He has published stories in a number of literary magazines, including Southern Review, North American Review, Texas Review, X-Connect, Happy, In Posse Review, and Night Train. His reviews have appeared widely in such publications as Ploughshares, Georgia Review, American Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, the Missouri Review, and Environment magazine. He has contributed almost two dozen articles to Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market and a dozen to The Writer. His coauthored nonfiction environmental book entitled Killing Me Softly was published by Monthly Review Press in 2002. Besides his writing, Smith coedits the Green Hills Literary Lantern, an online literary magazine published by Truman State University.