“To look too closely is to become corrupted.” Absence as mystery. Time and identity. The 1970s Midwest reality of Satan. Motels. Blue Velvet. I had the great honour of interviewing Nicholas Rombes for @hfr.bsky.social about his neo-noir modern classic, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing 📼🔥📼🔥
“Evil Was Real”: Matthew Kinlin & Nicholas Rombes Discuss His Novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
Released just over a decade ago, the mystery of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing from Nicholas Rombes only deepens. In the mid 90s, a journalist tracks down and interviews a rare film librar…
heavyfeatherreview.org
April 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
“To look too closely is to become corrupted.” Absence as mystery. Time and identity. The 1970s Midwest reality of Satan. Motels. Blue Velvet. I had the great honour of interviewing Nicholas Rombes for @hfr.bsky.social about his neo-noir modern classic, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing 📼🔥📼🔥
Staring deep into the "comparative size of starships" image because I'm trying to figure out roughly how big the Acestes -- Tor's ship in Blue Zenith -- should be. #amwriting
January 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Staring deep into the "comparative size of starships" image because I'm trying to figure out roughly how big the Acestes -- Tor's ship in Blue Zenith -- should be. #amwriting
This is Acestes, he’s a moon bull and also one of the main characters of my webcomic 🌙
January 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is Acestes, he’s a moon bull and also one of the main characters of my webcomic 🌙
A fine example of brachyptery on this 0.4mm long Oligosita acestes wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found in the old meadow at Great Dixter today.
#UKWildlife #wasps #HighWeald #Trichogrammatidae
#UKWildlife #wasps #HighWeald #Trichogrammatidae
August 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A fine example of brachyptery on this 0.4mm long Oligosita acestes wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found in the old meadow at Great Dixter today.
#UKWildlife #wasps #HighWeald #Trichogrammatidae
#UKWildlife #wasps #HighWeald #Trichogrammatidae
Muchos troyanos, cansados del viaje, ven esto como una señal y deciden quedarse en Sicilia con Acestes. Demasiados trotes, ya está bien.
Eneas, en cambio, sigue adelante. Es un punto de inflexión: el grupo se reduce, pero los que siguen son los elegidos por el destino.
(5/6)
Eneas, en cambio, sigue adelante. Es un punto de inflexión: el grupo se reduce, pero los que siguen son los elegidos por el destino.
(5/6)
March 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Muchos troyanos, cansados del viaje, ven esto como una señal y deciden quedarse en Sicilia con Acestes. Demasiados trotes, ya está bien.
Eneas, en cambio, sigue adelante. Es un punto de inflexión: el grupo se reduce, pero los que siguen son los elegidos por el destino.
(5/6)
Eneas, en cambio, sigue adelante. Es un punto de inflexión: el grupo se reduce, pero los que siguen son los elegidos por el destino.
(5/6)
El momento más épico de los juegos lo encontraremos cuando el arquero Acestes dispare una flecha al cielo… y los dioses respondan con un presagio divino que anunciará el destino de los exiliados... (4/6)
March 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
El momento más épico de los juegos lo encontraremos cuando el arquero Acestes dispare una flecha al cielo… y los dioses respondan con un presagio divino que anunciará el destino de los exiliados... (4/6)
Acestes Nkrí Halkias, Heir to the Throne of Halkias
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Acestes Nkrí Halkias, Heir to the Throne of Halkias
I reviewed Nicholas Rombes's (The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing) flabbergasting new novel, The Rachel Condition @clashbooks.bsky.social at 3:AM Magazine.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-rach...
Thank you @andrewgallix.bsky.social !
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-rach...
Thank you @andrewgallix.bsky.social !
The Rachel Condition – 3:AM Magazine
The threatened moment arrives, after the aforementioned letter, in the book’s magisterial closing sections, where a nested novel, with accompanying commentary, finally makes its appearance and disinte...
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May 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I reviewed Nicholas Rombes's (The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing) flabbergasting new novel, The Rachel Condition @clashbooks.bsky.social at 3:AM Magazine.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-rach...
Thank you @andrewgallix.bsky.social !
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-rach...
Thank you @andrewgallix.bsky.social !
Aunque tiene varios momentos enormes, el más importante es el tiro con arco de Acestes. Su flecha se incendia en el aire y desaparece en el cielo. ¿Truco? No. Un presagio divino, los dioses hablan por él y señalan el camino.
(4/6)
(4/6)
March 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Aunque tiene varios momentos enormes, el más importante es el tiro con arco de Acestes. Su flecha se incendia en el aire y desaparece en el cielo. ¿Truco? No. Un presagio divino, los dioses hablan por él y señalan el camino.
(4/6)
(4/6)
did you ever read The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes? i am having extremely fond memories of it, currently
February 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
did you ever read The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes? i am having extremely fond memories of it, currently
I would add that for me by far would be The Things We've Seen by Agustín Fernández Mallo.
Followed in its own way by The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes.
Followed in its own way by The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes.
Interesting list, but the most Lynchian book I've ever read is Bolaño's "2666."
Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu
I don’t remember my dreams much these days. It might be age. Or screens. Or the low-grade brain damage humming in the zeitgeist. I live in Los Angeles, which doesn’t help. The Dream Factory, uncann…
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August 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I would add that for me by far would be The Things We've Seen by Agustín Fernández Mallo.
Followed in its own way by The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes.
Followed in its own way by The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes.
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, basically SCP + David Lynch, is a story that should be self obsessive and stupid but instead is genuinely really interesting because it understands the material it's riffing on and comes from a clear personal place. it's remarkably effective despite it all
January 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, basically SCP + David Lynch, is a story that should be self obsessive and stupid but instead is genuinely really interesting because it understands the material it's riffing on and comes from a clear personal place. it's remarkably effective despite it all
Una altra tongada de personatges:
Encèlad (gegant dins l'Etna)
Aquemènides (grec, antic company d'Ulisses)
Polifem (cíclop)
Acestes (Rei de Drèpan (Sicília))
Anna (germana de Dido)
Iarbes (rei, pretendent de Dido)
Elissa (?)
Fama (monstre amb plomes i un ull, una boca i una llengua sota cada ploma)
Encèlad (gegant dins l'Etna)
Aquemènides (grec, antic company d'Ulisses)
Polifem (cíclop)
Acestes (Rei de Drèpan (Sicília))
Anna (germana de Dido)
Iarbes (rei, pretendent de Dido)
Elissa (?)
Fama (monstre amb plomes i un ull, una boca i una llengua sota cada ploma)
August 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Una altra tongada de personatges:
Encèlad (gegant dins l'Etna)
Aquemènides (grec, antic company d'Ulisses)
Polifem (cíclop)
Acestes (Rei de Drèpan (Sicília))
Anna (germana de Dido)
Iarbes (rei, pretendent de Dido)
Elissa (?)
Fama (monstre amb plomes i un ull, una boca i una llengua sota cada ploma)
Encèlad (gegant dins l'Etna)
Aquemènides (grec, antic company d'Ulisses)
Polifem (cíclop)
Acestes (Rei de Drèpan (Sicília))
Anna (germana de Dido)
Iarbes (rei, pretendent de Dido)
Elissa (?)
Fama (monstre amb plomes i un ull, una boca i una llengua sota cada ploma)
Talked alternate timelines, Detroit punk, and more with Nicholas Rombes! vol1brooklyn.com/2024/07/08/t...
“This Novel Drove Me Out of My Mind”: Nicholas Rombes on “The Rachel Condition”
There’s a lot going on in The Rachel Condition, writer and filmmaker Nicholas Rombes’s followup to his excellent debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing. In its broadest terms, i…
vol1brooklyn.com
July 8, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Talked alternate timelines, Detroit punk, and more with Nicholas Rombes! vol1brooklyn.com/2024/07/08/t...
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“Evil Was Real”: Matthew Kinlin & Nicholas Rombes Discuss His Novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
Released just over a decade ago, the mystery of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing from Nicholas Rombes only deepens. In the mid 90s, a journalist tracks down and interviews a rare film librar…
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April 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Research about Sicily & Aphrodite. #sicilian #sicily #italianamerican #mafia #organizedcrime #benedicaria #benedetta #ancestors #strega #folklore #folkmagic #malocchio #maloik #maloika #evileye #theevileye #generations #tradition #aphrodite #venus #segesta #troy #eryx #crimisus #acestes #research
March 12, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Research about Sicily & Aphrodite. #sicilian #sicily #italianamerican #mafia #organizedcrime #benedicaria #benedetta #ancestors #strega #folklore #folkmagic #malocchio #maloik #maloika #evileye #theevileye #generations #tradition #aphrodite #venus #segesta #troy #eryx #crimisus #acestes #research
Finished The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes. My one criticism is that I think it gets just a bit too clever for it's own good. Other than that it's a fascinating play on what a narrative can be and a lesson in how stories can be told without ever being told. #booksky
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Finished The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes. My one criticism is that I think it gets just a bit too clever for it's own good. Other than that it's a fascinating play on what a narrative can be and a lesson in how stories can be told without ever being told. #booksky