“There is a moving intimacy to [Ali Smith’s] narration. Readers of serious literature and poetry will find this a rich, worth listen.”
      —Library Journal

“Smith adds complexity and meaning to the book through her narration. . . . Her soft but inviting voice seduces listeners and keeps their attention throughout.”
      —Publishers Weekly

“Author Ali Smith’s narration is practiced, with well-thought-out timing and emphasis.”
      —AudioFile

“One of the marvelous things about this book is its reconciliation of the serious—both in the form of this crumbling, smelly guest and in its ardent advocacy of art—and light. Smith, whose love of words and skill at wordplay has already been made apparent in her stories and novels, performs dodge after dodge after dodge. . . . What Smith has done with Artful is to invent a new form apart from form, to build a kind of Frankensteins monster inside the act of art.”
      —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Like no lectures you’ve ever encountered. Part ghost story, part love story, part mystery, part ode, they weave a narrative that feels more urgent, more naked than academia commonly allows. This is good. Good because exciting; it hooks us. And good because in taking this approach, Smith goes a long way toward restoring the arid subject of comp lit to its more rightful state, something vital and raw.”
      —The New York Times

ALI SMITH is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Accidental, winner of the Whitbread Award and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize; and There But For The, named one of The Guardians Best Books of 2011. Both are available as HighBridge audiobooks. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she now resides in Cambridge, United Kingdom.