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Beautiful Views: Tyler Stoddard Smith

By TNB Nonfiction

Interview

Tyler Stoddard Smith is a widely published humorist and the author of the forthcoming book Whore Stories. He is also a TNB contributor featured in The Beautiful Anthology, where he wrote a humorous essay that is not based on his real life.

 

What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?

The picture on the Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing bottle.  I haven’t really been there, but it looks nice, and I often imagine myself there, frolicking.

 

How can we make the world more beautiful?

Add tulips and regulated nudity.

 

What is the most beautiful thing you ever created? What made it beautiful?

A skateboard ramp. The fire I set to it.

 

What is not beautiful to you?

Uggs.

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TNB Nonfiction features some of the web's best essays, excerpts of up-and-coming books, self-interviews, profiles, and humor from a wide range of authors. Past and future writers include Emily Rapp, Mira Bartók, Nick Flynn and Melissa Febos, among many others.  Our editorial team includes:  SETH FISCHER is the Nonfiction Editor. His work has appeared in Guernica, Joyland, Best Sex Writing, and elsewhere, and he was the first Sunday editor at The Rumpus. His nonfiction was selected as notable in The Best American Essays, and he has been awarded fellowships by Jentel, the Ucross Foundation, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. He is also a developmental editor of nonfiction and fiction, and he teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles, UCLA-Extension, and Writing Workshops Los Angeles.

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