Deliverance (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Tennessee news of the weird: Item 1 is from the Rob Smith category of "people who should be drug off and shot"...Item 1:The Sullivan County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s office plans to release more information today about a 10-year-old boy who police...
It's a Crime! (or a mystery...) (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Before I even start, let me warn you: I am not about to debate the merits (or otherwise) of the inclusion on the 2008 Man Booker longlist for this novel - that might come later, should I feel the desire, and I suspect it might as I feel the author has been unfairly criticised on a personal level. As a regular crime and thriller fiction reader - my thoughts are entirely on this novel for its own standalone...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
To say that Rob Smith lives and breaths soccer would be, well, correct. The Coatesville resident is known on the high school circuit as the knowledgeable girls' coach at Downingtown West.
Blog d'Elisson (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The pit bull of the Bloggy-Sphere, Bane , has passed away after a long illness. Other bloggers - Rob Smith comes to mind - may have been irascible, but Bane could be downright scary . You got the feeling that there was sudden violence lurking just under the surface of the Baneskin. Love and seething fury. All of us have both, but most of us try not to acknowledge the delicate balance - the dynamic...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Review: Child 44 by Tom Rob SmithRob Smith has written a cracking story about the powerlessness of the individual under Stalin's purges
Arrowhead Pride (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
You spend all that time on a Saturday morning writing a big long post about roster cuts and you totally miss the actual announcement of some of the cuts. Courtesy of WPI , here are seventeen of the cuts . 1. OC Rob Smith 2. OG Travis Leffew 3. OG Edwin Harrison 4. OT Anthony Alabi 5. TE Michael Allan 6. TE Michael Merritt (PUP) 7. WR Kevin McMahan 8. WR Sergio Joachim 9. WR Jabari Arthur 10. DE Jason...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The Yuzhno-Khylchuyu field in northern Russia should reach an output of 160,000 barrels of oil a day and the peak should last for three years, Rob Smith, a ConocoPhillips secondee to joint venture Naryanmarneftegas, said today at the site.
Other Stories (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
I don't normally go down the negative review line. Life is too short to bitch. If it were any other book than this I would quietly say my little bit in the sidebar and get on with the next book....
Jeff Mills Coastal Vacations Club B (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
I am working with Rob Smith and showing him how to blog! His weight loss and fitness center is The Body Project Studio in Eagan Rob Smith is a personal trainer in Eagan, and he helps people lose weight fast. I mean come on… if you are going to go on vacation… you do want to look your [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Toby Clements on a 'superior commercial thriller'
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
If there’s no such thing as bad publicity, then Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel is the early winner of the Booker Prize longlist. More column inches, most of them negative, seem to have been written about Child 44 than about any other longlisted title. “A fairly well-written and well-paced thriller that is no more than that,” said Jamie Byng of Canongate, damning with faint praise, adding, for the avoidance...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A New Reformation by The Rev. Dr. Rob Smith, Oblate OSB Special to Virtueonline www.virtueonline.org 8/7/2008 We who have prayed for a new Reformation in the Anglican Communion should remember that reformations are a messy, untidy business, and reformers themselves are an odd and uncomfortable lot. Their eyes see into the middle distance and be they bold, bright-eyed, or brittle, their range of vision,...
Planet Xbox 360 (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The judges behind the Games Critics Awards, a panel of more than 30 video game journalists headed up by Geoff Keighley and Rob Smith, have weighed in on their ballots for E3 '08. Bethesdaâs Fallout 3 took top honors as best in show.
Vh1 Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Here’s something you probably didn’t catch from watching last night’s premiere of I Want To Work for Diddy: Rob Smith is an out gay man who isn’t shy about knocking down the doors of what he calls in a post on AfterElton the “somewhat homophobic hip-hop world.” He continues: “Visibility matters, and for both myself [...]
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Not everyone is pleased to see Tom Rob Smith’s first novel, Child 44, a serial-killer thriller set in Stalinist Russia, find a place on this year’s longlist of nominees for the Man Booker Prize. In a piece for the Los Angeles Times, critic-blogger Sarah Weinman quotes Canongate Books publisher Jamie Byng as saying, “I cannot respect a judging committee that decides to pick a book like ‘Child 44,’
