Quarternotes Newsletter: A Quarterly News Update
American Melodies: Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community
The creativity of American music makers and the quest for community among their audiences is explored across popular music genres: folk, rock, jazz, R&B, and gospel. The premise of this book is that music making and participation among people in community can assist in overcoming ideological divides and generate attention to supporting ecological sustainability and human connection.
An Essay on T.S. Eliot and Music appears in Modernism Revisited (January 2026)
Novel Published (December 2023) The Last Alchemist
The Last Alchemist has been published in December 2023.
New Poetry
"High Country Fields" (Pinyon, Spring 2023)
"A Letter from Paterson to Mr. Updike," "First Inaugural" (Paterson Poetry Review, Spring 2023)
"Winter Lament" (The Red Wheelbarrow, Autumn 2022)
"To Thoreau" (Bluebird Word, October 2022)
"Taps" (Visions International, October 2022)
"Hurry Down This Poem" (New Verse News, July 2022)
Rock Music Icons is newly in print and e-book. Rock Music Icons is a collection of essays on several prominent figures in popular music. The Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s - 150+Icons lost its editor to retirement and it was prepared during a time of covid. The book is intended as a breezy overview of the songwriters, not as an in-depth analysis. Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a work of scholarship concerning modernism and the writings of James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats.
The People We Meet In Stories: The Characters of 1950s American Fiction is a cultural history of the 1950s in America.
"Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books" is a reference to the bestselling books of the Twentieth Century (and to bestsellers of the first 18 years of the Twenty-First Century).
Citizen Steinbeck: The writing of John Steinbeck is viewed as a moral challenge and hope for contemporary America.