Nicholas Rys

To call Fogged Clarity an “arts review” would be like calling Entropy a “lit mag”; sure it’s true, but it’s also a bit reductive given the scope of the org.…

I recently watched Mulholland Drive for the first time. My friend told me he watched it back to back with one of my favorite films, Sunset Boulevard, and told me…

Zac’s Control Panel by Dennis Cooper Kiddiepunk, 2016 Kiddiepunk (download or view online)   In September, Dennis Cooper released his newest novel, and second composed entirely of gifs. The first, Zac’s…

So I had my second installment all mapped out. I decided that since my first piece focused on MUSIC influenced by WRITING I wanted my next to focus on WRITING…

Deerhunter Under the Influence of Dennis Cooper I’m very excited to write the first installment of what will be a new, recurring series I’m starting called Under the Influence. The…

Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Youth’s second LP, turned 30 this year to little fanfare. There were no reissues, no Pitchfork articles, no one there to discuss this bizarre anomaly of…

I’m getting really tired of having this conversation. It’s been obsolete for years, but yet there I am, slightly buzzed at Thanksgiving dinner and having the conversation with my family;…

I recently purchased a VCR because nostalgia has been hitting me hard lately. My fiance and I rescued one of these archaic machines from a local Goodwill and as many…

This list of titles was designed backwards, with faith put in guiding principles like intuition and free association. The destruction of self and others, the decomposition of the body and…

  Sean H. Doyle pulls no punches. Equal parts beautiful and painful, kinetic and heart wrenching, This Must Be The Place starts with a childhood car wreck and ends with…

Jeff Jackson and Josh Yates are truly unique voices in each of their respective mediums.  Jeff’s prose is truly singular, gritty and otherworldly; both firmly of this world – occupying…