- Professor Emeritus of English - St. Charles Community College Author of THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS: A NARRATIVE DISCOGRAPHY (FM Books & Music 2022). 532 pages. See omdonrecord.com Editor and publisher of BOOK OF MEMORY: A RASTAFARI TESTIMONY (425 pp. CaribSound Ltd 2005). Seeking a publishe... moreProfessor Emeritus of English - St. Charles Community College
Author of THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS: A NARRATIVE DISCOGRAPHY (FM Books & Music 2022). 532 pages. See omdonrecord.com
Editor and publisher of BOOK OF MEMORY: A RASTAFARI TESTIMONY (425 pp. CaribSound Ltd 2005). Seeking a publisher for the reissue edition!
2018-2023 -- Volunteer and Secretary on the Board of Directors for POTBANGERZ.org -- a 501(c)3 organization which conducts food outreach and other services to the unhoused in St. Louis
2002 to present -- Volunteer at STL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM on the planning committee for the annual Yom HaShoah commemorationedit
A deep tissue exploration of the birth of one of the seminal songs by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
On St. Louis' near north side, shaped out of the old DeSoto Carr neighborhood and fueled by mid-century theories of modernism in politics and architecture, there came and went something called Pruitt-Igoe. The name itself has never failed... more
On St. Louis' near north side, shaped out of the old DeSoto Carr neighborhood and fueled by mid-century theories of modernism in politics and architecture, there came and went something called Pruitt-Igoe. The name itself has never failed to signify-as the mid-20 th century example above all others in America of high hopes and failed design and as a gathering place of all the maledictions of poverty. Michael Allen, a St. Louis architectural historian, calls it "the site of the death of public housing in the United States.
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an essay-review of a terrific short fiction anthology published by Akashic Books compiling selections from the Calabash Writers' Workshop
An in-depth interview with a scholar of proverbs, folklore, poetry and narrative.
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This is a document that I share with my Holocaust literature students at St. Charles Community College which serves as an introduction to me. While I am by no means a "scholar in the field," I have read and studied and taught literature... more
This is a document that I share with my Holocaust literature students at St. Charles Community College which serves as an introduction to me. While I am by no means a "scholar in the field," I have read and studied and taught literature of the Holocaust for a generation, and I have conducted oral history with survivors as well as volunteered for 20 years at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum.