David A. Westbrook Intermittent Signal

Part II of my book, Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America, available in print on Amazon.

Part II of my book Smith Lake.

An introduction, and the beginning, of my book Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America.  Popular music as window into meanings, personal and even constitutional, for the way so many of us live. 

The limitations and excitement of the photo essay as a form, and my efforts to use it to articulate some subjectivities of the era just past, between the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid Pandemic.

Our situation in time and space, festivals, and finding something special right here, right now, wherever and whenever that might be.  Impressions.  History, great local food and drink.  Appreciation.

Reflections on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and why so little was learned from our war in Vietnam.
Music by Vince Parlato; photo Vincent Littrell. 

A consideration of the killing of Soleimaini, in light of (renewed?) hopes for the liberal international order.

The pandemic, both the physical disease and in the body politic, over the last years, as engaged by a writer marooned on a mountain.   Cultural critique, existential struggle, and poetics -- with recipes.