Robert Loss

Robert Loss is an assistant professor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st Century American Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His music criticism and journalism have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and Ghettoblaster. Visit him at www.nothinghasbeendonebefore.com.

Greil Marcus on Van Morrison: When That Rough God Goes Riding

Risk and Equilibrium: The Impact of Greil Marcus

Wussy [Cincinnati, Ohio]

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Saint John of the Five Boroughs by Edward Falco

Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman

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The Death of the Second Folk Revival