Writing
Essays and Articles by Colin Dickey:
The Dispossessed, LA Review of Books
Abyssal Alphabet, Reanimation Library, Word Processor
Pet Cemetery, The Revealer
The Redemption of Saint Anthony, Public Doman Review
The Addicted Life of Thomas De Quincey, Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
The Canny Valley: Social Memoir, Used Furniture Review
The Haunted Hotels of Los Angeles, Virginia Quarterly Review
Pitch Battles, The Believer; read the whole thing at Longform.org
A Fire in the Belly, Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
Dark Pages, The New Inquiry
One Book Opens Another, LA Review of Books
On the Trail of the Elusive Vampire Squid from Hell, LA Review of Books
The Canny Valley: The Self-Help Avant-Garde, Used Furniture Review
St. George, the Monstrous Saint, The Revealer
The Canny Valley: True Enough, Used Furniture Review
No Success Like Failure, LA Review of Books
King & I, LA Review of Books
Very Superstitious, Lapham’s Quarterly
About a Genre: John D’Agata and the Essay, LA Review of Books
Living in the Margins, Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
Dancing with Memory: On Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing, The Millions
The Patron Saint of Dark Days, Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
We Will Re-Bury You, LA Review of Books
Quack Prophet: Nostradamus, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Future (Fall 2011)
After Bloomsday: Thoughts on an All-Day Reading of Ulysses, Writers’ Houses
Dear S—, The Orphan
Skyscrapers of the Dead, Lapham’s Quarterly, Roundtable
Necropolis, Lapham’s Quarterly, The City (Fall 2010)
On Bones and Libraries, Lapham’s Quarterly, Roundtable
The Twice-Bought Head of Cardinal Mezzofanti, Wonders and Marvels
Seismograph, Phonautograph, Skull: On Useless Recordings, This Recording
The Cadaver Method, Lapham’s Quarterly, Roundtable
The Fate of His Bones, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 28 (Winter 2007/2008)
On Passports: W. G. Sebald and the Menace of Travel, Image & Narrative, Issue 19 (Fall 2007)
