Bøger af Franz Nicolay

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage.

Engrossing and compelling novel that wrestles with the artist's contraditions against a backdrop of a life on the road: magical, honest, and pure, but also destructive, dangerous, and out of control.Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and keyboards in The Hold Steady. He was once named #1 of Punk's 10 Best Accordion Players.

>While engaging with the works of literary predecessors from Rebecca West to Chekhov and the nineteenth-century French aristocrat the Marquis de Custine, Nicolay explores the past and future of punk rock culture in the postcommunist world in the kind of book a punk rock Paul Theroux might have written, with a humor reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart. An audacious debut from a vivid new voice, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control is an unforgettable, funny, and sharply drawn depiction of surprisingly robust hidden spaces tucked within faraway lands.