Pete A. Nicholson

• • F#A#Infinity
  • A story about drones and synaesthesia and Tasmania, originally published in NY journal Ballyhoo Stories, and nominated for the 2005 Pushcart Prize. There's more.
• • A Raga Called Milk and Honey
  • Originally published in Meanjin, A Raga Called Milk and Honey is a story of a brother's return home from a mental institution, and how we sing along to ruined cassettes. There's more.
• • Into Advertising
  • Originally published in Australian/U.K. experimental writing journal Total Cardboard, this story looks at the effect of advertising on long-term mental health. There's more.
• • Berlin Guidebook
  • A short submission to a guidebook on Berlin, focusing on the city's thoroughly awesome public transport network. There's more.
• • NY, 1972
  • A piece, published in the Berlin journal The Extra Room, on an experimental psychological treatment pioneered in New York in the 1970s with heroin-addicted Vietnam vets. There's more.
• • I am no good at handling difficult people
  • The mysterious case of the Vikings in Greenland, and how their disappearance explains why old Australian women won't eat kangaroo. There's more.
• • Four Records From The (Almost) Canon
  • Four remarkable, little-heard records from two depressed Kiwis, a deep listening scholar, some truly radical post-punkers and a couple of Arizona desert rats. There's more.
• • Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
  • A review of Antony and the Johnson's 2009 lp The Crying Light, published in The Big Issue. There's more.
• • Sir Richard Bishop
  • Bishop still moves through styles and obsessions at a rate faster than you can recognize them, as likely to break out into back-porch swing as a gypsy freakout. But for those for whom the Girls were always a bit too far out in the ether, Bishop's new record -- as open-eyed and accessible as anything he's ever done -- is a great entry point to the Girls' fourth dimension. There's more.

Things I've written

My fiction and non-fiction writing has covered synaesthesia, the failed Viking colonization of Greenland, feeders, experimental psychology, holistic health, Tasmanian rainforests, mental illness, crazy wise men and the advertising industry, among many other loosely connected strands of human endeavour and curiosity.

I’ve also written sales copy, edited business proposals for German executives, and written extensively about experimental music. I am currently doing content development and blogging for Gaga, blogging about sustainable packaging for Depot, finishing up a long-running autobiography project, and trying to find the time to scrawl a few things down about my time in Siberia.