What ensues is an atmospheric, cryptic extrapolation of movies and how they intertwine with life, and the forgotten films that curse the lost librarian still. Laing agrees to speak with the journalist, but only through the lens of the cinema. This weeks new writing comes in the form of an edited, self-contained extract from Nicholas Rombes forthcoming novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, in which the eponymous cinephile Laing is interviewed regarding the destruction of a rare film.
Unsure at first whether Laing is a pseudonym or some sort of Hollywood boogeyman, a journalist manages to track the forgotten man down to a motel on the fringe of the Wisconsin wilds. Short Fiction By: Nicholas Rombes Karl Smith, October 12th, 2014 17:02. Roberto Acestes Laing was highly regarded by acclaimed directors around the globe for his keen eye, appreciation for eccentricity, and creativity in interpretation. In the mid-'90s a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burned his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappeared. For the reader, there is little we can know for sure, but this is what makes the book so exciting." In the process, Rombes found the freedom of fiction pushing him towards a new type of writing.
"The novel is an attempt to write about film through fiction, engaging both art forms at once with the analytic mind of the academic and the imagination of the storyteller. He is the author of the cinematic novel The Glacier (Two Dollar Radio) and multiple essays at 3:AM Magazine.P> *A Best Book of 2014 -Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine, Book Riot He was an editor of the international literary journal Berlin Quarterly, and has collaborated on numerous works of theatre, dance theatre, film, and video. He was a founding member of the art/film group Rufus Corporation, directed by Eve Sussman, whose works are now housed in collections at the MoMA, Whitney, and Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Jeff Wood is an actor and writer living in Berlin. at the University of Detroit Mercy in northwest Detroit, where he hosts the Creative Writing Collective. His work has appeared in The Believer, The Oxford American, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. He also wrote and directed the lo-fi sci-fi love story film The Removals. Nicholas Rombes is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio), Ramones (from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series), and Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press).
He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD). GUESTS Mark de Silva is the author of the novel Square Wave, Points of Attack (CLASH Books) and the fiction editor of 3:AM Magazine.
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