Mystical Liberal likes long walks in the city at night in the rain alone with an umbrella and flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig.

John Walker Ross is the host of the Pop Culture blog The Round Place in the Middle. If you like what you read here, you’ll find way more of the same over there.

LEWIS SHINER‘s novels include the forthcoming Outside the Gates of Eden, Black & White, the award-winning Glimpses, and the cyberpunk classic Frontera.