Starting on (I think) January 8th, the Instagram account Bibliofeed will be featuring a post a day for a week about books I recommend. It’s a great feed — a post every day about a recommended book by that week’s contributor. Check it out now and you might find something you might like. Just scroll through theirContinue reading “Coming Soon on Bibliofeed”
Category Archives: Literature
“David Bowie’s Station to Station and ★: The Beginning and End of Bowie’s Reinvention of Music”
The following paper was presented at the 2023 Popular Culture Association Conference of the South in New Orleans in session F 11.1: Friday, September 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Algiers A. Many thanks to Samuel Lyndon Gladden, University of New Orleans, for his work organizing this panel. By 2015 I’d been living in Ohio forContinue reading ““David Bowie’s Station to Station and ★: The Beginning and End of Bowie’s Reinvention of Music””
Liber Abaci
Liber Abaci O! Could any great stone, mountainous though it is, resist that wry, gentle, know- ing look that pierces your dark surfaces with humor like prismatic sunlight dript through summer windowpanes in early morning: you want the light, but don’t want to wake up. c 2017 Jim Rovira
Poem: “The Magical Realist”
“The Magical Realist” Foundling of enchant- ed lands, dweller in starry ways, mythographer. 04-17-2017 Clinton, MS
On Being Creative
[Reposted from 2017.] Artists and their Art My two points of reference for artists and their creations here will be New York Stories and Bullets Over Broadway, both excellent films that in their own ways comment on the art of filmmaking and creativity. I won’t be discussing it now, but I’d also recommend the film S.O.B. New York Stories isContinue reading “On Being Creative”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 