Joe Bonomo

Creative Nonfiction Writer

DeKalb, IL

Illinois US

Email:

jbonomo@niu.edu

Website:

joebonomo.substack.com/

Twitter/X:

@BonomoJoe

RSS feed:

joebonomo.substack.com/

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

33 1/3: The B-Sides (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from The Normal School (Outpost19, 2018)

Brief Encounters: An Anthology of Short Nonfiction (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)

How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010)

The Next Of Us Is About To Be Born: Wick Poetry Series Anthology (Kent State University Press, 2009)

Books:

Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays (The University of Georgia Press, 2025)

No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

Field Recordings from the Inside (Soft Skull Press, 2017)

This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began (Orphan Press, 2013)

Conversations With Greil Marcus (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)

AC/DC's Highway to Hell [33 1/3 Series] (Continuum, 2010)

Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found (Continuum, 2009)

Installations (Penguin Poets, 2008)

Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America's Garage Band (Continuum, 2007)

Journals:

American Letters & Commentary

Caketrain

Hotel Amerika

Quarter After Eight

Sentence

Under the Sun

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Silver Spring, MD

Maryland

Raised in:

Wheaton, MD

Maryland

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Last update: May 05, 2024