Lollipop Magazine

High On Rebellion – Review

September 1, 1999

Strings together a zitherscope of oral remembrances and photographs of a generation of once-unknowns who would grow to rule the cultural empires of the world.

Electro Shock! – Review

September 1, 1999

They don’t interview Eno or Gary Neuman, but they do interview Madonna Wayne Gacy from Marilyn Manson.

Choice of Evil – Andrew Vachss – Review

June 1, 1999

“The only light was somewhere in the back room. No noise. She came out with a hypo, hit herself on a fleshy part of her upper arm, and pushed the plunger.”

Burning Girl: A Novel – Ben Neihart – Review

June 1, 1999

“Weak sun broke against the bottle-glass windows. It felt like the bottom of a well. Dank air hung in dusty layers.”

Beast of the Heartland – Lucius Shepard – Review

June 1, 1999

“Overhead, a pair of laced-together sneakers looped over a telephone line heeled and kicked in a stiff breeze, bringing to mind a gallows dance.”

A Quilted Heart – R.M. Vaughan – Review

June 1, 1999

My last sensation before death – the fat, lemony zinc taste of the poison Samson had fed me – was gone, because the embalmers brushed my teeth and tongue.

Lords of Chaos – Interview

June 1, 1999

An interview with Michael Moynihan

POPsmear – 18 – Review

April 1, 1999

The closest thing to POPsmear is the “news reports” on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. It’s tabloid kitsch, but it’s intentionally so.

Lexicon – 9 – Review

April 1, 1999

With precious little irony or snideness to distance himself from the enormity of his sins, Richards bravely stares right into the rouged face of the abyss.

Word Virus – The William S. Burroughs Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

Compilation of published works spanning the career of one of the great American minds of the 20th Century. Includes an excerpt of the Kerouac collaboration.