Or as Cass herself puts it at the start of Hard Light: "I'm the ghost of punk, haunting the twenty-first century in disintegrating black-and-white." Too tough to die, indeed. Jason Heller is a ...

Now in her late 40s, she’s “the ghost of punk, haunting the twenty-first ... her absolute best to court death and destruction. “Hard Light,” Hand’s third Cass Neary novel, picks up ...

Festival co-founder Shawn Stern spoke with The Times about the origins of the festival and why the culture and spirit of punk ...