Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven't Touched Since High School (2013), which the Atlantic Wire called "truly enjoyable," and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times , A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times , Salon , BuzzFeed , Vulture , the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR . In 2013, he was BookRiot 's first ever Writer-in-Residence. He...See more

Kevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven't Touched Since High School (2013), which the Atlantic Wire called "truly enjoyable," and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times , A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times , Salon , BuzzFeed , Vulture , the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR . In 2013, he was BookRiot 's first ever Writer-in-Residence. He can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, cat, and most of MTV's first year on vinyl. See less