Review
?Smith has an insider?s knowledge of what the targets are and the outsider?s sense of where the absurdities lie. How Insensitive is astute and welcome.? ? The Globe and Mail
?Russell Smith?s How Insensitive attempts what most Canadian writers shy away from ? satire. In his dizzying look at Toronto?s under-30, avant-garde scene ? a scene saturated with drugs, post-punk fashions, ephemeral nightclubs, poststructuralist chatter ? Smith displays a satirist?s instinct for significant gesture and speech, as well as an impressive knowledge of current cultural minutiae.? ? The Toronto Star
?Terribly funny and very well written. This is a great first novel. There should be more.? ? Quill & Quire
How Insensitive FROM THE PUBLISHER
Adrift in Toronto's gossipy, grant-driven cultural scene, a coterie of overeducated, underemployed young people stab at vaguely artistic projects and scramble after the opportunities that seem tantalizingly within reach -- if you know the right people. Searching for work, sex and big-city life is Ted Owen, who quickly finds himself swept into the complicated lives of the young and the jaded, people who thrive in a strange world of hip fashion and surreal night-clubs.
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