A New Myth
Nolan James Steven Cross is an exceptional name. It is a name one would expect wedged in among the romantics: Lord George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Nolan James Steven Cross. The name smacks one hard with what I believe Sigmund Freud first coined as “pen-name envy”, a common affliction among writers of all classifications. Nolan Cross is a fiction writer, from the very bottom of his heart, and I am not. We first met at Green Auto, an ex-mechanic’s shop turned indie music venue in the industrial east corner of Vancouver...
What an important guy, I’m glad to have him in the community. People are afraid to have an open mind…