Jack Sullivan, Chair of the English Department at Rider University, is the author of Elegant Nightmares, New World Symphonies, Hitchcock’s Music, and New Orleans Remix and the editor of Lost Souls, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural and Words on Music. His main passions are teaching, writing, wine and food tasting, and taking his students to plays, concerts, arts festivals, and great cities. He has written about music, literature, and film for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Opera, the Washington Post, Newsday, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, USA Today, Harpers, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and others. He has been both a producer and frequent guest on NPR. Although his Ph.D is in literature, he writes mainly about music and film and contributes program notes to Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the Caramoor Festival, the Wexford Opera Festival, and others. His script for Hitchcock! was narrated by Alec Baldwin for a performance by the New York Philharmonic. He lives in New York City with his wife Robin and two sons, David and Geoffrey. His newest book is New Orleans Remix, from University Press Mississippi. Based on dozens of interviews, it explores the contemporary music scene in New Orleans, an explosion of creativity reminiscent of the early jazz era. It shows how this renaissance has grown since the 1990s and which musicians are making it happen, including a large influx of immigrants from around the world. A few like Jon Batiste and the Rebirth Brass Band are now famous, but most – brilliant trumpeters like Leroy Jones, soulful blues singers like Marla Dixon, explosive drummers like Shannon Powell -- are largely unknown. eThis book reveals why this story could happen only in New Orleans
