AJ Smith

AJ Smith

Growth

Told in a variety of narrative styles and with a clever weaving of literary, musical, and pop cultural allusions, Growth is a novel that questions the role of art in our lives and seeks to examine the way literature permeates our own views of reality—and the inverse.

By The Thumbings of a Prick

The Tweets of Donald Trump as Shakespearean Sonnets

About AJ

AJ Smith graduated from The College of New Jersey in 2010 with a degree in English education. He currently teaches English at Hillsborough High School in New Jersey. He lives in Somerville with his his boxer, Westley. His first novel, Growth, was published in August 2017.

Blog

Jack Sparrow, Kyrie Irving, and the Inevitability of Self-Justification

There is a particular film trope wherein the villain, despite all of the requisite villainy that would lead to their villain status, must join up

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