My Black Pages: Lester Bangs' Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Don Waller, LA CityBeat, 21 August 2003
BACK FROM THE dead and bigger than ever! As a writer – hell, more importantly, as a reader – the Editorial We wuz turnin' cataleptic cartwheels of cakewalk energy when we first heard that a SECOND collection of the late Lester Bangs's writings was set to hit the nation's bookshelves sometime this year.
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