Larry R. Smith's Reviews
Reviews of Larry’s Work
Dec.12.2011
Published by Athens News
"The Free Farm" is a pleasurable read about an OU student who struggles balancing social change, the woman he loves, and the college lifestyle at OU. It gives an eye-level...
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Nov.09.2011
Published by Sandusky Register: FunCoast
Huron author Larry Smith recently returned with his fifth novel “The Free Farm,” which is a sequel to “The Long River Home.”
While he’s published plenty of work before, including...
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Nov.09.2011
Published by Sandusky Register: FunCoast
Huron author Larry Smith recently returned with his fifth novel “The Free Farm,” which is a sequel to “The Long River Home.”
While he’s published plenty of work before, including...
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Oct.01.2007
Published by Jacket Magazine
Yes, d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution, edited by Bottom Dog publisher Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg, portrays levy as both Cleveland partisan and descendant of the Beats...
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Jun.01.2010
Published by Now and Then: Appalachian Review
Larry Smith’s latest novel, The Long River Home, is a story that will be familiar to those who call Appalachia their home. Set in the Ohio River Valley region, the narrative...
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Jul.04.2010
Published by Herald Star of Steubenville, Ohio
MINGO JUNCTION - They played basketball at Mingo High School before graduating together in the Class of 1961. Now almost five decades later Guy Mason and Larry Smith are working...
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Published by Woking Class Studies Newsletter Fall 2009
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Jan.23.2010
Published by The Sandusky Register
Larry Smith is the author of 12 books, a publisher who has put out more than 100 books, a filmmaker who has worked on documentaries about writers James Wright and Kenneth...
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Jan.06.2010
Published by examiner.com
Smith's reading from Long River Home brought the aforementioned magic to life.
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Reviews by Larry
22.Feb.2009
Larry R. Smith reviews
by jeff-vande-zande
Here's a review posted on Amazon.com
'Landscape with Fragmented Figures,' Jeff Vande Zande's second novel, is a gripping...
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27.Dec.2008
Larry R. Smith reviews
by amy-tan
I've been reading Amy Tan and teaching her in my college classes for about 8 years now, and she's always voted the "favorite...
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On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
Connections
Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems