David Masciotra is the author of I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury) and Mellencamp: American Troubadour (University Press of Kentucky). He has also written about politics, music, and literature for many publications, including Salon, No Depression, the Progressive, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."