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By Lily O’Delia There is a moment in Will Hermes’ Lou Reed: The King of New York when the sheer difficulty of writing about Lou Reed becomes apparent. Reed spent much of his life making himself difficult to know. He could be tender and vicious, funny and exhausting, generous one moment and cruel the [more…]

A.K.A. Creed Woodhouse, Out Now + Signing Event Booked Kindred is the nightmarish debut horror novel from long-running extreme music and horror journalist Chip McCabe. Creed Woodhouse is the horror writer alter ego of author/journalist Chip McCabe, who has written extensively about music for publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, [more…]

By Lily O’Delia  There is something unnervingly intimate about Patric Gagne’s Sociopath: A Memoir, At one point, she writes, “For the most part, I felt nothing.” The line lands with a stark, almost clinical honesty, and it quietly becomes the pulse of the memoir. It beats beneath every chapter, shaping the choices she makes [more…]