Kyle Smith
| Kyle Smith | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 50–51) East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, critic, journalist |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Subject | Fiction, film |
| Spouse | Sara Austin (m. 2007) |
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Kyle Smith (born 1966) is an American critic, novelist and essayist. He is a staff film critic for the New York Post. A writer in Entertainment Weekly described Smith's film-reviewing style "an exercise in hilarious hostility". He has been dubbed "America's most cantankerous film critic" by The Atlantic magazine. Smith has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal,People,New York, The New York Times,Commentary and The Weekly Standard.
Smith graduated from East Longmeadow (Massachusetts) High School in 1984, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University. Smith served in the U.S. Army during the Persian Gulf War, holding the rank of lieutenant. From 1996 to 2005 he worked at People magazine as editor of book and music reviews.
Smith has published two books, in addition to his newspaper and magazine features, film reviews, and essays.
Love Monkey is a comic novel about a cynical, self-deprecating journalist named Tom Farrell and his romantic tribulations in New York City. The book was first published by William Morrow in 2004. A New York Times article described the book as a guys' version of such popular chick-lit novels as Bridget Jones's Diary and Melissa Bank's, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and cited Nick Hornby's books About a Boy and High Fidelity as inspiration for Love Monkey. Times critic Janet Maslin called the book "hilarious".Entertainment Weekly called the book "relentlessly cynical" and concluded that "'Monkey,' like the paper Tom writes for, is loud and brash, but a helluva lot of fun".Time magazine said, "You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking buddy--watch out for a memorable strip-club meltdown scene--but there's a deep, dark subway of despair running underneath his riffs, and that's what makes the book more than a standup routine.... 'Love Monkey' nails it."
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