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  <name><![CDATA[Nicholas Rombes]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Rombes is author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982, as well as Ramones, volume #20 in Continuum's 33 1/3 project, and Cinema in the Digital Age. Born in Waterville, Ohio. Raised on the muddy banks of the Maumee River. Currently Professor and Chair of English at the University of Detroit Mercy. The city that Will-Not-Give-Up.

His writing has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, McSweeney's online, CTheory, and in the forthcoming 2009 Oxford American Music Issue.

Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint, his hard-boiled and fantastical detective noir story, is appearing in pamphlet installments, one a month, in 2010.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Ramones' Ramones (33 1/3)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Your Life is a Movie]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Punk Cinema]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cinema in the Digital Age]]></title>
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