Jeff Melnick is Professor of American Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston, where he specializes in teaching 20th century cultural history. He is the author of 9/11 Culture: America Under Construction, A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song, and Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction (with Rachel Rubin). Melnick is currently completing his work on a book called Creepy Crawling with the Manson Family.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Waves of Mutilation: An Excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family”
LARB presents an excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.”...
Out of the Mystic
Jeff Melnick on Ryan H. Walsh’s “Astral Weeks,” a history of Van Morrison’s iconic album....
Who Was Sharon Tate?
Sanders's first contribution was to see Manson as an individual — not a symbol....
