Geoff Nicholson is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. His books include the novels Bleeding London and The Hollywood Dodo, and the non-fiction The Lost Art of Walking. He blogs about “food, sex, obsession, and the madness of the mouth” at psycho-gourmet.blogspot.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Lunch and Other Distractions: On Susan Bright’s Pictorial History of Food Photography
Geoff Nicholson savors Susan Bright's "Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography."...
The Anatomy of Finickiness: On Alexander Theroux’s “Einstein’s Beets: An Examination of Food Phobias”
Who knew Mussolini didn't like mashed potatoes? Geoff Nicholson enjoys Alexander Theroux's latest....
The Shrugged Atlas
Geoff Nicholson on the rise of the alternative travel guide....
Apertures and Aperitifs: On “The Photographer’s Cookbook”
The greatest food photography ever....
Sausage Subversion
PEOPLE WHO LOVE SAUSAGE and respect the law should never watch either one being made.” I thought that was a quotation ...
Street Life
Geoff Nicholson on "The Other Paris."...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Los Angeles
A dentist chair view of LA....
Collecting and Correcting
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger don’t discuss art, but rather they reevaluate what is and isn’t worthy of attention, whether it’s art or not....
Wish I Weren’t Here
The pleasures of postcards...
At War with the Obvious, Obviously
Image: William Eggleston, "Untitled," 1974 I WAS LATE FOR the start of William Eggleston’s signing session at Paris Photo ...
Mockery in America: Terry Eagleton’s “Across the Pond”
TERRY EAGLETON IS A FUNNY MAN. Writing about Hal Gladfelder’s Fanny Hill in Bombay for the London Review of Books, ...
The Walk of the Worlds
Triptych image: "Rules of the Universe"Image Credit: Maureen SelwoodEDGAR ALLAN POE IS EVERYWHERE. The Following, featuring murders based on Poe, ...
You Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Full
Swimming pools, movie stars....
Mentors: J.H. Prynne
I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry....
Model Villages, Short Stories, and Other Miniatures
When it comes to trying to make a piece of fiction, scaling down is an essential strategy. The world has "scalability" in spades....
Buster Keaton and the World of Objects
Given the choice between a book and a baseball bat, there is no choice for Buster. He’ll take the bat every time...
