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FOREWORD Having been advised throughout time to not "wear my disease on my sleeve", I have taken into account of the possible stigma surrounding mental illness. It is true. Typically, upon introduction, people do not mention their ailments. Schizophrenia, however, affects/effects thought, language, and behavior so pervasively that an explanation is order in the context of sociability. The writing style of this novella is highly idiosyncratic ...

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Packed with indelible portraits of individual artists and informed by John Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of the city's unique and varied music scene, New Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture that gives New Orleans its grace and magic. The book follows some of New Orleans's most gifted musicians - including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, "Trombone Shorty, " and Big Chief Monk Boudre...

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At its most intimate, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us, at its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? Renowned music writer John Swenson asks that question with New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans, a story about America's most colorful and troubled city and its indominable will to survive. Under sea level, repeatedly harangued by fires, crime, and most de...

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What happens if we imagine the Jesus of Christian theology to be realized in the nonhuman natural world around us? Basic to Christian belief is the notion that God, the creator of all, inhabited the earth in order to call to us. God of Earth embraces this central premise of Christianity - Jesus as both fully divine and fully human - and then allows for the possibility that such a Jesus need not be limited to a human man. What if Jesus were "Go...

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John Swenson-Wright is Fuji Bank Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies at Cambridge University.