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WE ARE GHOST LIT

July 18, 2023 by jamesrbrubaker

A Novel, published by Braddock Avenue Books Described as a “…tender postmodern meditation [on] …the human heart itself” (Ron A. Austin), James Brubaker’s new novel employs a constellation of narrative possibilities in its quest to understand how we can live with loneliness and grief. For some time, the narrator, a writer named James Brubaker, has looked for a way to understand what happened to his childhood friend who died in potentially mysterious circumstances. Knowing that the friend was often troubled […]

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They Will Light a Match and it Will Do No Good

December 14, 2021 by jamesrbrubaker

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She and I, We Prayed Together

December 14, 2021 by jamesrbrubaker

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On Inherent Vice

December 14, 2021 by jamesrbrubaker

Wrote this for Wig-Wag about stumbling through pandemic life and PTA’s Inherent Vice.

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On Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

January 2, 2020 by jamesrbrubaker

Here’s one I wrote for Wig-Wag. It’s an essay about turning 40 and watching The Wrath of Khan a bunch.

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The Taxidermist’s Catalog

September 10, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

A novel, published by Braddock Avenue Books For music journalist Daniel Morus the notion that things could be going better is a double album-sized understatement. He finds himself on the wrong side of a brief second marriage, professionally irrelevant, and facing the last act of his life with few friends and little prospect for fulfillment—never mind happiness. His one remaining pleasure is the folk music he’s spent the better part of his career listening to and writing about, especially the […]

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Pack of Wolves/Swarm of Bees

September 10, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

You can read my very, very disturbing story called “Pack of Wolves/Swarm of Bees,” here. September, 2019. *content warning: lots of horrifying sex stuff (all consensual), and bucket loads of vomit*

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On Who’s Next by The Who

June 19, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

On Who’s Next by The Who, published on TheRS500.com

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On Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions

May 14, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

On Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions, at theRS500.com

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