../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 ../#comment-130255 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:37:24 +0000 ../../../../#comment-130255 […] in 2014, we featured an excerpt from Nicholas Rombes’ novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing alongside an interview with Rombes about his novel. Today we’re featuring a story that […]

]]> ../#comment-125890 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:13:07 +0000 ../../../../#comment-125890 […] In the mid-’90s, a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burns his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappears. So begins the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes. In his novel, Rombes explores the intertwining of life and cinema through a interview with a highly acclaimed but eccentric film librarian, Roberto Acestes Laing. We had a chance to talk with Rombes about film and fiction, as well as other topics like music and his nonfiction writings. Be sure to also check out our excerpt from The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing. […]

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