“On Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy” appeared on theRS500.com, 2014. 

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Liner Notes, a collection of short stories, published by Subito Press.  Buy it here. == In Liner Notes, James Brubaker has assembled a two-sided collection of stories that feature both fact and fiction.  These music-inspired narratives remind us that ‘songs are time’ and when we lay the tracks of our past down on thirty-nine seconds or three minutes of a melody, the result is both a remembering and an imagining.  Here is a stunning debut by a writer who understands the […]

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Pilot Season, a collection of short-short fictions, published by Sunnyoutside, 2014. Buy it here. == “Brubaker paints an America of pixels and prose, probing into our TV-lit living rooms to expose our best and worst truths. He recognizes us for what we are—both viewer and viewee—and rather than condemning our culpability in what passes for entertainment, offers a story wonderful and weird enough to pull us from our sets.” – Erin Flanagan, author of It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories “Like […]

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“Spielberg’s Unified Version of Everything” appeared in The Collagist 56, 2014. 

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