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February 17, 2021

“Stranger Dangers: Sexuality, Adolescence and The End of Everything” by K.A. Laity

Originally posted on Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon:
Abbott uses the crime and its investigation to upend all manner of assumptions about how we view girls and – as narrator Lizzie discovers – how they view themselves and one another. Megan Abbott’s 2011 crime novel The End of Everything deals with the situation…
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Published on February 17, 2021 07:24

February 16, 2021

The Interrogation Room – Coming Through In Waves Special – K. A. Laity

Originally posted on Dirty Books:
Next up in a series of interviews to celebrate the launch of the new Gutter Books anthology Coming Through In Waves: Crime Fiction Inspired By The Songs of Pink Floyd is K. A. Laity, author of Chastity Flame, Lush Situation and A Cut-Throat Business. Author: K. A. Laity Story Title:…
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Published on February 16, 2021 12:36

February 15, 2021

Out Now! Coming Through in Waves

Out February 15th! Editor T. Fox Dunham and Gutter Press bring you this fabulous collection of crime stories inspired by the legendary band. Fox writes: In honor of my birthday (or what I like to call VOC Day-Victory over Cancer-Gutter Books is opening the preorder for Coming Through in Waves. E-Book version of Coming Through... Read More
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Published on February 15, 2021 11:36

February 11, 2021

Review: The Witch of Kings Cross

THE WITCH OF KINGS CROSS Writer/Director: Sonia Bible The story of Rosaleen Norton is not very well known outside Australia, even among the pagan world. I was lucky that a friend who was a huge fan introduced me to her art in the 90s. Powerful stuff, it is, too. With occult, spiritualist, and surreal art... Read More
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Published on February 11, 2021 13:50

February 10, 2021

Pay Your Rates at Rolling Stone by K A Laity

Originally posted on Punk Noir Magazine:
My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength. ~Antonio Gramsci Had a beard which was weird Some time ago Heard Ramones in…
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Published on February 10, 2021 05:40

February 8, 2021

FACING THE UNKNOWN

FACING THE UNKNOWN: IMAGINATION IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC Lightforms Art Center, Hudson NY January 8th 2021 – April 3rd 2021 Lily Morris, Millicent Young, Osi Audu, Martina Angela Müller, Patrick Stolfo, Laura Summer, Elmer Orobio & Richard Neal Completely new in recent history, the pandemic has created a never before experienced inner and outer... Read More
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Published on February 08, 2021 06:39

February 3, 2021

Pre-Order Coming Through in Waves

Out February 15th but up for preorder now! Editor T. Fox Dunham and Gutter Press bring you this fabulous collection of crime stories inspired by the legendary band. Fox writes: In honor of my birthday (or what I like to call VOC Day-Victory over Cancer-Gutter Books is opening the preorder for Coming Through in Waves.... Read More
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Published on February 03, 2021 06:23

January 29, 2021

Out Now: A Cut-Throat Business

Introducing the 3rd book in The Adventures Of Chastity Flame series from Fahrenheit Press: Find out more In A CUT-THROAT BUSINESS our hero Chastity Flame returns with all her usual joyful sexual abandon and top class, spy malarky – if you’ve read the first two books you’ll totally know what to expect, and if you haven’t slip... Read More
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Published on January 29, 2021 12:14

January 24, 2021

Out Now: Pax Victoria by Liz DaVinci

Pax Victoria is a concept album about a fictive character named Victoria whose mundane Californian life was interrupted by an all-consuming love affair that led her into the world of underground crime and having to choose between right and wrong. The songs describe Victoria’s struggles as she faces realities she doesn’t want to believe possible... Read More
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Published on January 24, 2021 08:00

January 22, 2021

Patricia Highsmith at 100 by K A Laity

Originally posted on Punk Noir Magazine:
One hundred years ago the Cottingley Fairies were brought to the public’s attention by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote in the accompanying essay, ‘The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit…
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Published on January 22, 2021 06:21