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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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By: David Smay

The great striker of sentences between Joyce and Nabokov.

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Edgar Ulmer

By: David Smay

Revenge and cruelty are the wicked core of his films.

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Early ’60s Horror (6)

By: David Smay

“The strange and sinister embroidered on… the normal and easy.”

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Paul Klee

By: David Smay

There are no painters as articulate, self-aware, and playful.

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Bruce Conner

By: David Smay

He never ceased his restless formal innovations.

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Brigitte Lin

By: David Smay

She radiated menace, steel and megawatt charisma.

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Claude Cahun

By: David Smay

“I will never be/finished removing/all these faces.”

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Spike Jonze

By: David Smay

Wondrous things pressing against the seams of the everyday…

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Joe Kubert

By: David Smay

His expressive line slashes to the emotional core of every scene.

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Kirk Your Enthusiasm (12)

By: David Smay

Federation exceptionalism

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Angela Carter

By: David Smay

Her books abrade the British literary canon.

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Søren Kierkegaard

By: David Smay

Heroically engaged with his own alienation.

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Joris-Karl Huysmans

By: David Smay

He wrote a fuck-you note to the 19th century. It was a scan­dalous hit.

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Early ’60s Horror (5)

By: David Smay

Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses: Sexy transgressive euro-Evil wins!

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Early ’60s Horror (4)

By: David Smay

Eyes Without a Face: dis­passionate yet romantic, gory yet lyrical

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