ee Clay Johnson’s second novel, Bloodline, released in 2025 by Panamerica (the publishing arm of the newspaper County Highway), centers on Winston Alcorn, a grifter auctioneer transformed into a Lost Cause politician. Winston readily admits that he suf…
n the final chapter of his new memoir, Scene (Simon & Schuster, 2025), Abel Ferrara relates an anecdote about a fan coming up to him before the premiere of a recent film of his to tell him that The Driller Killer was one of his favorite movies and …
na Paula Maia’s slim, newly translated novel, On Earth as It Is Beneath (trans. Padma Viswanathan, Charco Press, 2025), set inside a failed Brazilian penal colony at the edge of the known, is a saga of nihilistic minimalism with the rarest of qualities…
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
elease the Horse by Matthew Mitchell’s got me thinking about the Ozarks. Specifically, Dogpatch USA. We went there when I was a kid, before the place went belly-up for the final time. It had been on the skids forever—money problems, weather problems, l…
’ve been amused by recent reports of the deciphering of the fourth message embedded in the artist Jim Sanborn’s encrypted sculpture Kryptos, which has been on display at the CIA headquarters since 1990. Three of its messages have already been solved us…
