Author Archives: Nicholas

Metaphysical quicksand, here:

The latest issue of Lowestoft Chronicle contains a fascinating interview with Randal S. Brandt about his discovery of a lost manuscript by the author David Dodge, whose 1952 novel To Catch a Thief was made into a film by Hitchcock … Continue reading →

“And that is where I found myself now, across the slate table from a man with such a deep and long scar down the left side of his face that he looked permanently creased.” From “The Evelyn Variant,” a new … Continue reading →

“I’ve arrived late to Nicholas Rombes’s A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982, a smart, sweeping, ambitious piecing-together of punk culture and history in the form of alphabetical entries. . . . Rombes has written a lively, powerful, important book. A … Continue reading →

A knife fight. Love. The supernatural. Another knife fight.

Here, altered:

This experimental project is now archived.

The story, here.

(One of) Blue Velvet‘s black frames.

Is something from 2011 old news? Is Drive old news? Is the scene from Drive through the concreted-over L. A. River near Reseda old news? There is so much love in Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles, and so much love in … Continue reading →