Roy Christopher

Front Wheel Drive #46

Roy Christopher — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:12:10 +0000

I’ve been slowly, quietly compiling an anthology of my zines, and this was one I didn’t have a copy of myself. Front Wheel Drive #46 was a ten-year anniversary issue of sorts. It came out sometime in 1996, a decade after my first zine in July of 1986. The working title for the anthology is …

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Aging BMX and Skateboarding Zine Kid Brings The Mediated Pain

Roy Christopher — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:49:29 +0000

An interview with me by R.U. Sirius for Mindplex Magazine. Originally published on Mindplex Magazine, this wide-ranging interview starts with my two newest books and then goes much deeper into their origins, my research, and my writing in general. Many thanks to R.U. Sirius, luminary of the liminal and co-founder of Mondo 2000 Magazine, for the thorough …

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Literary Indulgence Book Festival

Roy Christopher — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:48:13 +0000

On July 18th I’ll be at the Literary Indulgence Book Festival here in Jacksonville! My books and I will be hanging out at Table #14 all day. Come through and get a book, some stickers, and my horrible hand style in one of your books! Indulge yourself!

Gen-X and the Threat of Nuclear War

Roy Christopher — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:01:55 +0000

In his latest piece for The Stranger, Charles Mudede quotes my book Post-Self: Journeys Beyond the Human Body (Repeater Books). Mudede tackles the dread that only comes from the threat of nuclear apocalypse (a dread Generation X is all too familiar with). Describing the emergence of personal computers, cyberpunk, and the Cold War, he writes …

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As They May Think

Roy Christopher — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:51:05 +0000

“How easily we forget how bright the moonlight can be when we spend our nights in the wan glow of artificial light.” I found the above quotation on page 40 of a book. I don’t know what book. I’m usually more diligent than that about such pertinent details in my notes, but in this case …

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R.I.P. Ronnie Bonner

Roy Christopher — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:34:59 +0000

I just talked to him last month on his birthday. I’d known him for 35 years, and he inspired me all the way through. He ran companies, organized events, fostered communities, and did it all with an infectious smile on his face. With the passing of Ronnie Bonner this week, the world lost an inspiration, …

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Pain in the End: An Excerpt from POST-SELF

Roy Christopher — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:53:27 +0000

“One day you might find cause to ask yourself what the limit is to some pain you’re experiencing, and you’ll find out there is no limit at all. Pain is inexhaustible. It’s only people that get exhausted.” — Detective Ray Velcoro, True Detective1 “You’re just generating more pain, more penance for the one sin you couldn’t …

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POST-SELF Reading on Radio Panik

Roy Christopher — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:11:00 +0000

A quick reading of the first two paragraphs from Post-Self on Radio Panik episode #516, “Adrift Reentry Norther,” December 14, 2025. It goes as follows: We are all perpetually holding ourselves together. Our breath, our blood, our food, our spit, our shit, our thoughts, our attention—all tightly held, all the time. Then at death, we …

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Skate Book Club: THE MEDIUM PICTURE Review

Roy Christopher — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:44:53 +0000

Adam Abada wrote the following thorough and thoughtful review of The Medium Picture for Tails of Skateboarding‘s Skate Book Club newsletter: In a mode appealing to members of any subculture, Roy Christopher’s dense but slim The Medium Picture charts the changes in culture as dictated by technology on both a personal and intellectual level. Like …

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30% Off Preorders of POST-SELF!

Roy Christopher — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:11:00 +0000

My next book, Post-Self: Journeys Beyond the Human Body, comes out on December 2nd from Repeater Books, and they’re currently running a 30%-off sale on preorders! Post-Self is a grim survey of all the ways we attempt to escape the limitations of our physical forms—technology, rapture, drugs, death—with a Foreword by the cultural critic Mark Dery titled “Welcome to the …

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