“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Byron Coley
Byron Coley is a writer and archivist, best known as the co-editor of Forced Exposure magazine. He also wrote for New York Rocker, Boston Rock, the LA Weekly, and Take It!, and was the Underground Editor of Spin. He currently writes for The Wire, does pantloads of liner notes, and curates the occasional art show. In 2011, Coley published the first collection of his reviews, C'est la guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
Genres
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More