Welcome to the official website of Brian Jay Jones - that's me, the writer and biographer and not the dead Rolling Stone. Or the aeronaut, for that matter. But even if you came looking for one of those gentlemen, I'm glad you stumbled in, and I hope you'll stick around a bit and learn a little about me and my work. And if you've dropped by on purpose ... well, all the better. Thanks for visiting.
Keeping Up With The Jones . . .
Check out my blog, Literary Conceits, for more random musings from my random state of mind. The latest entry appears below, or you can get it right here.
My Five Favorites
Thursday, July 3 2008 at 6:00amAs I promised yesterday, here's a rundown of my five favorite biographies. I should probably qualify this by adding the disclaimer "...at this particular moment", as my list might very well be different, depending on when you ask me. Yeah, I'm a noodge that way. Anyway, here they are, in no particular order: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (Peter Guralnick) There's a moment from...
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Didn't See Me? Then Hear Me!
Hear my talk for National Library Week at the New York Society Library.
Recent Articles and Reviews
Foreign Affairs thinks Washington Irving is a "a pleasure to read." (May/June 2008)