Corey Michael Smithson: 4 books

In this engaging memoir, a homeless American artist flees New York to backpack across India. Armed with a wry sense of humor and boundless curiosity, he crisscrosses a dazzling, fragile, complicated country. Alternately joyous and wistful, "Lost Among The Marigolds" describes an unforgettable journey,...

"RELISHED VICES" is an unorthodox self-portrait, a collection of essays describing a few transformative years in the life of a queer American artist. Struggling to come to terms with his alcoholism, loneliness, and depression, he attempts a period of total sobriety, only to discover a much deeper...

"The Nova In The Attic" is a queer ghost story, one hundred years in the telling, that describes the enduring remnants of love after death. Set at first in a fin de siècle whorehouse and later in an elegantly appointed pharmacy, "Nova" depicts the intertwined lives of an immigrant abortionist, a...

An unusual and thrilling adventure story, set within a self-contained universe of competing cultures and dangerous magic, "Young Pim And The Goblins" explores the unexpected consequences of freedom, through the eyes of a former slave on the cusp of adulthood. The world of "Young Pim" is balanced between...