WHITE NIGHTS by Geoff Cochrane (Thumbprint Press); PLEASANT HELL by John Dolan (Capricorn) – April 2, 2005
After reading Geoff Cochrane’s book of short stories, White Nights, and John Dolan’s novel, Pleasant Hell, I was puzzled as to why large tracts of Dolan’s prose lodged in my head, while Cochrane’s stories dissolved into the ether. I recall vividly parts of his two novels, Tin Nimbus (about booze and rehab) and Blood (has some graphic writing about sex), and his nine books of poems.… More,,,