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The smell of acid in the morning: Is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Terry Gilliam’s Vietnam war movie?

A remarkably lucid and targeted vision that cuts through the haze like a sniper’s bullet soars over an opium field.

The dark, beautiful magic of reading Russian master Gaito Gazdanov’s stories for the first time

There’s a tenderness within Gazdanov that seems to recall Carson McCullers or Anne Tyler

Check out the wintery music video for my ambient electronica music track WHITEOUT

I wanted to layer, interweave and repeat instrumental loops to a point whereby it was almost like breathing.

In which I make ambient electronica music – listen here!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Brian Eno and Vangelis (particularly the Blade Runner soundtrack) lately…

The Judge and His Hangman: When the reader becomes a pawn in a crime writer’s wicked game

The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.

A desert trip to cherish: Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand is an oasis of literary ideas

As if Graham Greene took The Comedians and got Hunter S Thompson to take it out the brain-boiling wilderness for a spot of fear and loathing.

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