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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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On David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

May 14, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

On David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, at theRS500.com

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On Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

May 14, 2019 by jamesrbrubaker

On Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, at theRS500.com

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Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions

November 2, 2018 by jamesrbrubaker

A story collection, published by Urban Farmhouse Press.  In Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions a young man cites his obsession with the creation of alternate universes as a rationalization for not answering his girlfriend’s marriage proposal; James Franco travels to the edge of the universe where he meets a slightly different version of himself with whom he lives out the rest of his life; a man, snowed in at his hotel, meets a future version of himself who has questionable intentions; […]

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On Pink Floyd’s The Wall

November 2, 2018 by jamesrbrubaker

Something between an essay and a story about Pink Floyd’s The Wall as published at theRS500.com. 

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