Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

Subtitle: Overlooking Wesley Lake Note: This series of photographs is inspired and encouraged by Billie Hara (my most excellent collaborator at Composing with Images), whose series of the same name contains photos taken when we were in Asbury Park, NJ, on September, 26, 2009. We were attending (and presenting at) the Springsteen Symposium and took the [...]

Today is Bruce Springsteen’s 60th birthday and readers of the blog and my Twitter followers know that I am a huge fan and in a few days will be presenting a paper at the international Springsteen Symposium. My paper is investigating the literary tradition of supermarkets in terms of Bruce’s new song, “Queen of the [...]

I just got some of the best and potentially most fun conference news I’ve had in a while. My abstract, “Of Queens and Candy Aisles: Desire, Decaying Society, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Queen of the Supermarket,’” has been one of 140 papers accepted for the 2009 conference: Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium (Sept [...]