Cornel Bonca is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and rock 'n' roll history. His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in two dozen publications, among them Salon, The New York Observer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacaranda, and Modern Language Studies, where he's written on the beat poets, Bruce Springsteen, The National, The Airborne Toxic Event, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, and Don DeLillo. His last book was Paul Simon: An American Tune. He lives in Altadena, CA with his wife and daughter.
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Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s. Cornel Bonca dives deeply into his music, his long fifty-year career, and activism—including env... SEE MORE