Mikita Brottman is a peculiar scholar, erudite but very personal. He has a PhD in English Language and Literature at Oxford and has taught at various European and American universities. His main field of research is a certain pathological drive that surrounds contemporary culture. He writes about it in various media, both general and alternative, from the Los Angeles Times or The Huffington Post to underground publications. He has published cult books such as Meat is Murder or Hollywood Hex, but it is Against reading, published under the title The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008) which was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the books of the year. In addition to all that, he is a psychoanalyst and currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Interested in both the criminal mind and myths and magic, she lives with her husband, film critic David Sterritt, and with a charismatic French bulldog named Oliver.