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Author Archives: Nicholas
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Fiction The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing / novel, Two Dollar Radio 2014 Excerpt from Laing w/ annotations / Genius “A Woman of Theory” / Berfrois “The Removals” / Berfrois “Destroyer” / 3:AM Magazine “The North African Unit” / 3:AM Magazine … Continue reading
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Cinema in the Digital Age, Revised
A revised, updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press) is now alive and kicking in the world. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/cinema-in-the-digital-age/9780231167550
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Twin Peaks, Zombies, +++
Ramones (Bloomsbury) has been translated into Italian by the wonderful Minimum Fax publishers! An appreciation of Night of the Living Dead is up at Berfrois. Some thoughts about Twin Peaks: The Return are here at Filmmaker. And some words about … Continue reading
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Laing
THE ABSOLUTION OF ROBERTO ACESTES LAING “A haunting debut novel” —The Los Angeles Review of Books “Excellent and nightmarish . . . Rombes’s novel is a love letter to this art of misremembering’: these destroyed films become as real as any … Continue reading
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Shivers x 4
“Shivers” demo, 1978, The Young Charlatans: “Shivers” by The Boys Next Door (Nick Cave), 1979: The author’s version: Rowland S. Howard, from a 1999 performance: Courtney Barnett, 2015:
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Removals
Here. RemovalsMontage from Nicholas Rombes on Vimeo.
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The Story of X
I received, in last week’s mail, in trust for delivery to X, this letter from Berfrois. The note above refers to this communiqué, from X to Berfrois. And the background to all this is an outlandish, “first-frame-of-each-shot-of-Lana De Rey’s video ‘Carmen’”–submitted through … Continue reading
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Four Number-Title Books
After class the other day, a student told me she had finished reading “twenty-six sixty-six.” It took me a moment to process that she was talking about Roberto Bolaño’s novel. I had mentioned Bolaño in class. It got me thinking: how … Continue reading
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The Pleasure of the Text
One of the nicest side effects of the publication of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing has been the response to the “Read Your Way to Adventure” form at the back of the book, which invites readers to cut out … Continue reading
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