As Smart As They Are: The Author Project

Release Date: 2005-04-23

Overview: A documentary film tracing the collaboration between One Ring Zero, the Brooklyn house-band for McSweeney's Publishing, and an ensemble cast of award-winning authors, each of whom contributed original lyrics. Author Myla Goldberg torments guest singer Syd Straw with tongue twisting, five star vocabulary words. Paul Auster riffs on the ills of Cincinatti and the Iraq war. The film's title, in fact, comes from the inspired dialogue of a talking cockroach.

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Cast

Joshua Camp

as Himself

Michael Hearst

as Himself

Paul Auster

as Himself

Rick Moody

as Himself

Jonathan Lethem

as Himself