by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 23, 2021 | Recent Publications
We charm the waitress in her colorful sombrero at Paradiso Mexican Restaurant when our party of seven arrives. Three tables pushed together against a long booth, the scrape of metal on ceramic tile. It’s $2 margarita pitchers this afternoon, and all the chips and...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 23, 2021 | Recent Publications
1. Gayle McCormick Baby, It’s You. The high point of Gayle McCormick’s career—when the song she recorded with the band Smith reached number five on the charts—is also where her path becomes obscured. You’ve probably never heard of her. But if you were alive during the...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 22, 2021 | Recent Publications
Somewhere between Hibbing and New York, the red rust streets of the Iron Range and the shipping yards of the Atlantic, somewhere between Zimmerman and Dylan was a pit stop in Fargo… –“Dylan’s Lost Years” The day after the fire, all their...