Interviews With Songwriters         

These are an on-going series of interviews of with local Jacksonville songwriters--people I've met over the years through my studio or that I've played with in bands. Check back for more updates and  if you want to be on the list to receive notices when there's a new segment, or to request an interview an interview, email me at roy@roypeak.com.

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Book and Music Reviews and Essays and More         

Most of these were written for PopMatters.com, an online book and music review website; others just written just becuz...

Chicken, Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
by David Henry Sterry

The Language of Comics: Word and Image
Edited by Robin Varnum and Christina T. Gibbons

Rave America: New School Dancescapes
by Mireille Silcott

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art
by Sybil Gordon Kantor

Garbo
by Barry Paris

The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
by Richard Zacks

She Bop 2: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul
by Lucy O'Brien

Spike Lee: Interviews
Edited by Cynthia Fuchs

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
by Sloan Wilson

Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans
by Will Brooker

Surrendering To Marriage: Husbands, Wives and Other Imperfections
by Iris Krasnow

The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF
by Paul Blustein

1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions on CD

Books About Rock 'n' Roll

The White Stripes

Your First Tour

The Jaggerz!

Fiction         

I don't consider myself a writer, not by any means. But for a few years when I wasn't playing as much music as I would have liked I had these stories spilling out of me. I'll post a few now, a few more in the months to come. Never was able to get any of these published except for a few on the good ol' internet. Enjoy.

The Fourth
Short story I wrote for the online publication Dead Mule.

Little Deaths
Unpublished short story. Life at a Death Brothel. One reader said it would have made the darkest Twilight Zone episode ever.

Love After Death
A 20,000 word novella. Zombies in love? The Undead from their point of view? Reading back on this now it brings to mind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all those teenage vampire shows that became popular afterwards. Only I started this way back in 1983, thought I finished it and then gave it two extensive rewrites years later. I have to thank Bill Ectric for the inspiration on this, I'm sure he wouldn't remember but it came about from a conversation I had him with him about zombie movies and how they never got their say in what they were going through. Thanks Bill!

Part one of three. Part two will be done eventually.  I promise! Really!

All stories copyright D.R.Peak