MY ODE to L.A.
BACK SEAT BABY: POEMS BY Nicca Ray DRAWINGS BY Jesse McCloskey PUBLISHED BY Chris D.’s POISON FANG BOOKS
FALL 2020
Coming this fall from Chris D.’s Poison Fang Books
HAMSTER WHEEL
Hey, you know, there’s a whole life waiting for you outside of that hamster wheel.
WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
GOING PUBLIC
ON DANGEROUS GROUND
“YOU’RE TEARING ME APART”
Glamour, Drugs, Movies
When I think of the delirium in Nick’s films I immediately think of Bigger than Life…
SEARCHING FOR HOME
Nick believed The Lusty Men was about mans search for a home.
Betty’s Bing Crosby’s “mystery doll.”
I Dream of Parties
For years I ate, spoke, dreamed Nicholas Ray.
Pink Pandemic Stroll
Pink Pandemic Stroll
HERE COMES TROUBLE
“When I saw Gloria on screen I saw my half-brother, Tim’s face in hers,” Nicca Ray from Ray by Ray: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray
“BACK WHERE I COME FROM”
Nick and I were like Damon and Pythias, like brothers.—Alan Lomax
They Live by Night
Thoughts on Nick Ray’s directorial debut
In the Beginning…
…there was John Houseman
Before Movies
“The great thing about the theater in the thirties…”