As Smart As They Are: The Author Project

As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005)

Documentary

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.

Director: Joe Pacheco

Casts

	Joshua Camp as Himself
	Michael Hearst as Himself
	Paul Auster as Himself
	Rick Moody as Himself
	Jonathan Lethem as Himself
	Dave Eggers as Himself
	Jonathan Ames as Himself
	Myla Goldberg as Herself
	Darin Strauss as Himself
	Lawrence Krauser as Himself
	Amy Fusselman as Herself
	Clay McLeod Chapman as Himself
	Syd Straw as Himself
	Olivier Conan as Himself
	Allyssa Lamb as Herself

Crew