E. Marin Smith

entered graduate program: fall '13

degree(s) & major: B.A. in English, Texas A&M (2008)

areas of interest: Eastern religion and philosophy and its presence in Western authors and literature. Mythology, Biblical Allegory, Absurdism, and Magical Realism, particularly of the South American sort. Russian, French, and British classics of the incredibly long sort. The Beat Generation.

favorite authors: Alexandre Dumas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Somerset Maugham, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortazar, C.S. Lewis, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Henry David Thorough, Walt Whitman, Herman Hesse, Leo Tolstoy, Rilke...should I stop? I could go on.