Name Iris Smyles Role Writer | Books Iris Has Free Time | |
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Iris Smyles is an American writer. Her debut novel Iris Has Free Time was published in 2013 by Soft Skull Press. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published an informal companion novel to Iris Has Free Time in 2016 called, Dating Tips for the Unemployed, which is a semi-finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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Smyles has contributed stories and essays to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vogue, Paris Review Daily,Bomb, Guernica Magazine, Nerve, New York Press, McSweeney's Internet Tendecy and Best American Travel Writing 2015. She wrote a humor column for Splice Today.
Founder of the web-museum Smyles & Fish, she edited and wrote an afterword for The Capricious Critic by Ari Martin Samsky, based on a column she commissioned for that site.
Her writing has been compared to that of Dorothy Parker, James Joyce, Edith Wharton and Fran Lebowitz.
In the spring of 2016, she hosted a "National Blurb Contest." Contest winner actor Alec Baldwin, along with three finalists--Scott Stossel (editor of The Atlantic), William Souder (author of Under a Wild Sky) and poet John Stintzi--were honored at a 6am black tie breakfast in the Lobby of Econo Lodge NYC, "next to the ice machine."
She is the literary editor of EAST, The East Hampton Star Magazine.