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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle FREE

August 25, 2014 – 11:49 am

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

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Ava Gardner Forever

August 23, 2014 – 8:55 pm

No words. Set the Time Machine for 1950. Cast me as Burt Lancaster.

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TETE DE NAZI

May 28, 2014 – 1:39 pm

SNATCH-MAG.COM asked French Music Mogul Bernard Zekri how he got into music. Comment êtes-vous arrivé à intégrer ce milieu ? J’avais un copain qui s’appelait Peter Smith, un écrivain irlandais avec une tête de nazi. Genre une tête carrée, les cheveux plaqués en arrière et les yeux bleus. Il avait un manteau en cuir noir […]

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IN THE ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

April 21, 2014 – 11:21 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it hadn’t been in the winter. The 90+ temperature boiled the asphalt. New Wave had replaced punk and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be burned so […]

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Pas De Voitures – Paaris 2014

March 20, 2014 – 11:22 am

Last Friday Devlin and I arrived at Gare Du Nord from Bruxelles. We had read in the newspaper that Paris was suffering from a toxic smog. The pollution levels hit 180 microgrammes of PM10 particulates per cubic metre, which was twice more the safety limit of 80. The Hotel de Ville banned cars from within […]

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