Anthony Mostrom

Anthony Mostrom is a journalist living in Los Angeles. He was formerly a Los Angeles Times columnist and a book reviewer and travel writer for the L.A. Weekly. Currently he writes about music and culture for Pleasekillme.com.

America’s “Mein Kampf”: Francis Parker Yockey and “Imperium”

A shadowy fascist, the late Francis P. Yockey (1917–1960) has followers today....

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POLITICS

HISTORY

Performance Anxiety

Jacki Apple’s new book gathers three decades of writing about performance art....

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ART & ARCHITECTURE

“The Faster You Pour It Down”: On Charles Bukowski’s “On Drinking”

Anthony Mostrom gets a taste of “On Drinking” by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto....

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FICTION

POETRY

“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham

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POETRY

Dark Knights and Sunny Disquisitions: On David Kipen’s “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018”

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NONFICTION

HISTORY

An Unwelcome Brother

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HISTORY

GENDER & SEXUALITY

The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York

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ART & ARCHITECTURE

MUSIC

MEMOIR & ESSAY

“Having Repeatedly Supped with the Devil…”: The Strange Muses of John Gilmore

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NONFICTION

NOIR

Lionel Rolfe and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Coffeehouses

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NONFICTION

MEMOIR & ESSAY

High Hitler

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HISTORY

Wiry Minstrels and Bloodletting Monster: William McKeen’s “Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles”

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MUSIC

HISTORY

Desperate Straights: David Weigel on the Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

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MUSIC

HISTORY