Iris Smyles is an American writer. Her

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''Iris Has Free Time'' (2013) was published by Soft Skull Press and ''Dating Tips for the Unemployed'' (2016), an informal companion novel, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her third book, Droll Tales, a collection of loosely inter-connected stories was published by Turtle Point Press in 2022. Smyles has also contributed stories, essays, and poems to

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Internet Tendecy'' and Best American Travel Writing 2015. She also wrote columns for ''Splice Today'' and ''The East Hampton Star''. Smyles was co-founder of the online and print magazine ''Smyles & Fish'', later turned into a "web museum", featuring works by

Frederic Tuten Frederic Tuten (born December 2, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels – ''The Adventures of Mao on the Long March'' (1971), ''Tallien: A Brief Romance'' (1988), ''Tintin in the New World: A ...

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and others. ''The Capricious Critic'' by Ari Martin Samsky, a column commissioned for the site, was later published as a book edited and with an afterword by Smyles.

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Review of ''Iris Has Free Time''
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Review of ''Iris Has Free Time''
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