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

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.

Producers
Original title	As Smart As They Are: The Author Project
Directors	Joe Pacheco
Writers	Joe Pacheco

Cast

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