It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
