

Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com / Photos Tracy
- May 3, 2018
- 3 min
Jon Carroll / High Desert Gothic I: Artifacts
It all started with a mistake. In the 70s, when we lived in Los Angeles and worked against deadline, we often spent weekends at Joshua...


Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- Feb 26, 2018
- 3 min
Jon Carroll / Beetlemania
The last time I was thinking unhurried oatmeal thoughts was at the Bug. Our friend Tom told us about The Bug. We asked him about it....


Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- Aug 16, 2017
- 2 min
Atheist Power!
Here I am speaking to imaginary religionists I have brought along to be yelled at from time to time. But, well, read Psalm 139. They...


Jon Carroll / joncarrollproserose.com
- Jul 7, 2017
- 4 min
Jon Carroll / Manly Men
I’m writing this in order to find out what I think. I do not expect this to be easy. I am treading in weirdly dangerous territory, and I...


Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- May 22, 2017
- 6 min
Confessions of a Boy Wonder
I didn’t sign up to be a boy wonder. I was just tooling along at the Chronicle, editing the critics and writing the occasional...


Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- May 8, 2017
- 5 min
Happy Days
We didn’t know what we were doing. We were making it up as we went along. It was glorious. In the early 70s, magazine start-ups were like...


Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- Apr 18, 2017
- 2 min
Jon Carroll / Who Are You Again?
I’ve been face-blind all my life, and it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. A surprising number of things have gotten better as I’ve...


Jon Carroll
- Mar 16, 2017
- 2 min
Jon Carroll / Rage against Rumpcare
Rage is a useless emotion. It may be an appropriate emotion, but it scrambles your brain. It is so intense that it makes you feel like...