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: My Publications
Clapton, Beck, and Page: The Yardbirds Guitarists Project
Before I post my playlists, you’re probably wondering… now that I’ve listened to all available Clapton, Beck, and Page from the 1960s to 2023, which one is the best guitarist? It’s an obvious question, but a misguided one. Here’s what I’ve come to think:
“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
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 