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Nicholas Rombes
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August 2014
Specimen Days
In case abii, I've got a Substack, Specimen Days (h/t Walt Whitman)
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Ramones
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2005
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The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
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2014
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982
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2009
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Cinema in the Digital Age
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2008
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Lisa 2, v1.0
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2024
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10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory
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2014
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New Punk Cinema
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The Rachel Condition
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2024
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Gerry: Movies Minute by Minute
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Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint
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2009
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Nicholas’s Recent Updates
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| I commissioned this book as part of the Timecodes series (Bloomsbury Publishing) hoping Shaviro would bring his keen, theoretical eye to the film, which he did. Because the film under discussion--Neptune Frost--is not well known in many circles, it t ...more | |
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| "Never Love a Gambler" remains, for me, Ridgway's best work. A small book of a few short stories, I can't shake them from my head. Next would be "Horses," followed by "Hawthorn & Child." "Dooneen" is like a lost modernist novel. The language is every ...more | |
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| Such a strange and bleak book. An important piece of the piece of the films-that-don't-exist canon. ...more | |
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"This is all about the narrator's extended and elaborate concoctions. Lange spins impressive and obsessive passages like:
I know I couldn't allow myself to be mistaken, that I loved them, that I didn't mind not knowing their names as long as things wen" Read more of this review » |
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| I should have stopped reading William Gay after his near perfect story "The Paperhanger." That, and a few others in I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down are jarringly good. But so much else, the posthumous work especially, just doesn't have that dr ...more | |
"I tend not to be that into technology-driven sci-fi these days. But this is the best I've read in the genre since Max Barry's Lexicon.
A lot has been written about this, so just a few short notes. I love the big ideas of course, and the abstract play " Read more of this review » |
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| Such a sick, swampy, great (as in the old greats) book, such broken characters so committed to their own failures | |
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There's a goodreads user named Professor Nicholas Rombes. Someone had changed the author of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing to the Prof; last week I noticed this and changed it back. Hope that's ok? (I love your 3 novels and hope to see a new one soon!)
Yes, working on an expanded edition of the Laing novel, and partway through a new one about a doppelganger of Detroit that gradually removes the city piece by piece and replaces it with facsimiles.