Alex Dobrenko

Excerpt from a 1976 interview of Anaïs Nin by Jeffrey Bailey of New Orleans Review:

NOR

We seem now to be swept by a tide of nostalgia, a series of tides, really. How do you react to this? Are you nostalgic?

NIN

No, I’m really not. I love my present life, I love the people who visit me now. I’m much more interested in experiencing new cycles than in... See more

“There is only one plot – things are not what they seem.”

–Jim Thompson

My observation of the Brat cycle is that most people have never looked up the lyrics to this album — it’s unambiguous that Brat is about... doing drugs in the club ( “Should we do a little key?” ). It’s noteworthy when the right-wing criticism of a thing is more apt than the the left-wing co-opters.