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Colin Marshall talks with Geoff Nicholson, author of nonfiction books like Day Trips to the Desert, The Lost Art of Walking, and Walking in Ruins as well as such novels as Bleeding London, Gravity's Volkswagen, and The Hollywood Dodo. His latest is the novel The City Under the Skin, a story that combines Nicholson's familiar urban exploration tropes with murder, kidnapping, and forcible tattooing.
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Colin Marshall is a Seoul-based essayist on cities, language, and culture. He is the author of the books 한국 요약 금지 (“No Summarizing Korea,” 2024) and Korean Newtro: Where Youth Meets Tradition (2025).
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Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?
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