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FAMOUS FOR NEVER – ON SALE

December 18, 2022 – 9:48 pm

FAMOUS FOR NEVER A STORY OF FAME AND MISFORTUNE BY PETER NOLAN SMITH Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. – James Steele MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2022 In the 1970s city politicians launched countless projects to stem the tide of ‘white flight’. None of the doomed programs achieved their goals and the population of the Lower East […]

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AUGUST 16, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 1, 2021 – 11:15 am

Last night I snorted nine thick rails of cocaine with my nerves on edge and my penis soft as a worm. My sleep lasted until noon. Alice is already working at the yogurt shop. I have no work, but hopefully can pull off a coke deal for money for a friend of Mark Amitin. I […]

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ROCK STANDS TALL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2021 – 3:42 am

In August 1984 ACTUEL sent a Californian-born photographer and me to cover the Deauville Film Festival. This was my second journalism gig for the esoteric French magazine and I hoped that writing a good article might open the path to another profession than being a doorman at La Balajo. The Deauville Film Festival was not […]

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Keith Will Outlive Us All

December 3, 2020 – 11:36 am

Brian Jones was the prettiest of the Rolling Stones. He died at the young age of 27. His beauty has corrupted from his bones in the grave at Cheltenham Cemetery. A pretty boy no more. Surprisingly Keith Richards will probably outlive all the Stones. He has the sympathy of the Devil.

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

January 9, 2017 – 4:15 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of the life of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris throughout the 1980s, and Asia for the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging through the world ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without […]

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