As part of BOMB's Fiction for Driving series, Charlie Smith uses his slow, evocative and infective drawl to read Bigamy, a chapter from his novel Three Delays. The novel traces the embattled relationship of two lovers as they travel between such romanticized cities as Istanbul, Miami and Venice. The sensual volatility of the work is particularly fierce in this chapter: abuse, blows and bellows of a sundry sort beset the central characters throughout, and the opacity of their intentions is articulated with empathic clarity (40 minutes).

Click here to read Emily Testa's interview with Charlie Smith for BOMBlog. An interview with Smith, conducted by John Reed, appears in the Fall 2010 issue of BOMB Magazine.