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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
America’s “Mein Kampf”: Francis Parker Yockey and “Imperium”
A shadowy fascist, the late Francis P. Yockey (1917–1960) has followers today....
Performance Anxiety
Jacki Apple’s new book gathers three decades of writing about performance art....
“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....
“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham
Anthony Mostrom profiles Los Angeles’s premier poet of poems of regret and resentment, John Tottenham....
Dark Knights and Sunny Disquisitions: On David Kipen’s “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018”
Anthony Mostrom pores over “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018” by David Kipen....
An Unwelcome Brother
A cultural biography of America’s censor and the new Puritanism....
The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York
A portrait of punk-era New York’s art and music scenes....
“Having Repeatedly Supped with the Devil…”: The Strange Muses of John Gilmore
Anthony Mostrom writes about the life of noir author and gonzo journalist John Gilmore....
Lionel Rolfe and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Coffeehouses
Anthony Mostrom profiles legendary L.A. bohemian Lionel Rolfe and the coffeehouses in which he thrived....
High Hitler
Hitler and the Nazis were taking methamphetamine and opiates. But their biggest drug was still the ideology....
Wiry Minstrels and Bloodletting Monster: William McKeen’s “Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles”
Anthony Mostrom breezes through “Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles” by William McKeen....
Desperate Straights: David Weigel on the Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
Anthony Mostrom revisits the cult of prog rock....
The Fascist and the Preacher: Gerald L. K. Smith and Francis Parker Yockey in Cold War–Era Los Angeles
Anthony Mostrom revisits the sordid careers of racists Gerald L. K. Smith and Francis Parker Yockey....
Hitler Feared for Magnetism
Anthony Mostrom reviews three new books about Adolf Hitler’s rise to power....
