“Humanities librarian, she's a contrarian, eats all the other fish in the aquarium.”

Library

papers

SMiLE PAPER 1 Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and the Beach Boys' Smile: Cubist Aesthetics, Modular
Democracy, and the Writerliness of the Unreleased Masterpiece 106 KB
SMiLE PAPER 2 From "Romantic Gospel" to "Adequate Response": Trading Essentialism for Audience
Empowerment in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the Beach Boys' Smile 170 KB
ZOMBIES PAPER Uses of WWI Imagery in the Late 60's Pop Music of the Zombies and the Royal
Guardsmen 144 KB
POSTMODERN ORIGINALITY PAPER The Postmodern Disposition Toward Originality in Live Performance v. Recorded Text 110 KB
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PAPER The Issue of Intellectual Property in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don
DeLillo's Great Jones Street 152 KB
SAYLES-SINGH PAPER Faceless in the Crowd: The Dangers of Lost Individuality through Group Designation in
John Sayles' Hombres Armados and Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan 100 KB
RUSHDIE PAPER 'Adequate Response' or Business as Unusual: Countercultural Resistance to Commodified Culture in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet 47 KB
RUSHDIE THESIS Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws: Postmodernism and Rock Music as Countercultural Forces in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet 194 KB

Dumb Angel Records

Part One: Dream Job

Part Two: Day Job

Part Three: Day Dream

Part Four: Meaningful Work

MISC

I've done a fair amount of squawking about the Beach Boys' SMiLE album, and in 2017, I had the honor to be interviewed by Jean-Marie Pottier of Slate France for his book on the long history of audience participation in sustaining the album's mythology and veritable (bootleg) production.