Rosalyn Drexler is a visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Drexler currently lives and works in New York City.

Praise for To Smithereens

"Both epic in its energy and intimate in its attention; a much-needed reminder of the enduring, and transformative, power of the weird. Drexler rises from her corner, ready to fight again!" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"To Smithereens is transcendently weird and fun, like a pervy secret--it's exactly the way art and books should feel." --Halle Butler, author of Banal Nightmare

"Amid stiff competition, To Smithereens hoists the belt as Rosalyn Drexler's finest novel, a rough and funny artworld and showbiz throwdown from that sardonic, surreal and carnal New Yorkese voice that is like no other." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

Previous Praise

"To Smithereens is an extraordinarily good book, but then so is everything Rosalyn Drexler ever wrote." --The New York Times

"What impressed me immediately about Drexler's work was her voice . . . brilliantly comedic, observant . . . [It] presaged work by Renata Adler and Mary Gaitskill, post-modern writers who talked about the fragmentary nature of women's lives in fragments, sometimes, but Drexler had gotten there first." --Hilton Als, author of My Pinup

"Intelligence and wit bind all of Drexler's work, as strong as crazy glue." --Christine Smallwood, Harper's

"[Drexler's] gift is in probing the very American netherworld between sanity and incipient madness, the interiorization of the mind as modern life spins out of control and we are powerless to affect it." --John Lahr, The New Yorker

"Rosalyn Drexler continues to write some of the most intelligent, powerful, and winsome fiction being written today." --Annie Dillard

"First rate writing and first rate humor." --Gloria Steinem

"Rosalyn Drexler is always brilliant, gay, depressed, and hopeful." --Donald Barthelme

Publisher: Hagfish

Pub date: 2025-05-20

Length: 200 pages