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Author: David Smay

David Smay is the co-editor of two books about pop music, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, and Lost in the Grooves. He's also the author of Swordfishtrombones, the 33 1/3 series entry on Tom Waits. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

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His horror movies were unimaginably eerie.

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Ray Bradbury

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With Borges, one of the great masters of the short story.

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Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

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As big as Bing, but he died in obscurity.

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Dreaminess and lyricism in horror.

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The wrong kind of feminist, the wrong kind of novelist.

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Nathanael West

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The great striker of sentences between Joyce and Nabokov.

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Revenge and cruelty are the wicked core of his films.

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    • Typefaces
    • Captain Kirk
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