Like other rock stars before him, Jay Breeze has been relegated to "the dustbin of history." Consigned there even before his car hit a tree, Jay's reality was fan-dictated: the embodiment of a past that "the future thought it was." His literary executor, Charlie Beagle, journalism professor, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and former bandmate, retrieves the scraps—what seems the detritus of his friend's life—and composes the ballad of Jay Breeze, Rock Star. Bridging audience and artist, persona and man, ...
Like other rock stars before him, Jay Breeze has been relegated to "the dustbin of history." Consigned there even before his car hit a tree, Jay's reality was fan-dictated: the embodiment of a past that "the future thought it was." His literary executor, Charlie Beagle, journalism professor, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and former bandmate, retrieves the scraps—what seems the detritus of his friend's life—and composes the ballad of Jay Breeze, Rock Star. Bridging audience and artist, persona and man, musician and muse, reader and unflinchingly rendered character, Beagle arranges Jay’s woeful, passionate lyrics into a haunting, heartbreaking song
Jim Booth is a fiction writer with over 25 published stories in journals ranging from StorySouth to Dead Mule to Pig Iron Malt to Dew on the Kudzu and the author of The New Southern Gentleman (Wexford College Press, 2002) and Morte D'Eden, or Tom Sawyer Meets the Rolling Stones (Beach House Books, 2003).
Jim is fiction editor for Scholars and Rogues Literary Magazine, the literary arm of the national blog Scholars and Rogues.
A former touring rock musician, Jim currently operates his own independent record label, Goat Boy Records, and his sons Joshua and Trevor lead the rock group DoCo, currently on tour. Jim’s wife Carolyn Lea Booth is an artist and poet whose work shows regularly in galleries in North Carolina and the Southeast.
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