John Cline is a recent doctorate from the University of Texas in American Studies. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, Film & History, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, among others. He owns an embarrassingly large collection of calypso records.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Austin’s Psychic Heart
On David Heymann's recent collection of short stories, "My Beautiful City Austin."...
Calypso and Caribbean Migration: Lara Putnam’s “Radical Moves”
John Cline reviews "Radical Moves."...
I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig
HIS BOOKS are ever rooted in the visceral, the experienced — a hallmark of a life in fieldwork. Though the anthropologist ...
The Wages of Blackface
WHEN RIDING THE BUS to the University of Texas campus a few years back, I became suddenly conscious of the fact ...
Bananas Royale
WHEN RICH COHEN’S The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King ...
Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line
MANY READERS of biography have a strong desire to access juicy personal tidbits, whether salacious in their own right or otherwise ...
