Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, and Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith. He is the co-editor of Failure! Experiments in Social and Aesthetic Practices.
Here, Dickey speaks with LARB host Colin Marshall about the preternatural, The Shining, insanity, saintliness, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Lovecraft, Kafka, Herzog, and other famous obsessives.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall hosts the Korean-language podcast 콜린의 한국 (Colin's Korea) and is at work on a book called The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles. You can follow him at his website, on Twitter @colinmarshall, or on Facebook.
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