Bart Bull

It's never too late to die.

"The folkies who discovered the banjo and bluegrass in the 1950s and '60s were sweeping up an instrument notable now for its all-wh...

The ditch stays the same —  they just hand you a different shape of shovel.

In this life, only the most obvious things are likely to happen, but the amazing ones are absolutely certain.

(As offered to a rhetoric professor, contextually post-prandial political defeat...) There's two kinds of people: Those who believe in ...

Nature is fine, as long as it stays outdoors where it belongs.

I'm a man whose mind never quits wandering.

by Bart Bull (published in SPIN; excerpt from cover story) It wouldn’t be fair to say that Prince didn’t exist before “I Wanna Be Your L...

So this ran in SPIN back in the day, as an Editor's Note. As if it weren't odd enough to get paid to write about Irving Berlin....

I've been thinking yet again of   The Key To Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo. I've quoted from it before, and God willing, insh'...

Maybe the Civil Rights Movement, just like Davy Crockett, was born on a mountain-top in Tennessee. Maybe Mona Lisa's smile is over-ra...

The marshal of Tombstone reaches down to his gun belt, runs his hand over the black leather loops that hold the cartridges in an orderly row...

by Bart Bull published in Vogue (excerpt) On the wall nearby is a precisely rendered watercolor of a red-brown horse, a little swaybacke...

The French  can  rock.  Just ask them: they'll blast Noir Désir. Then, over the crashing, clashing, clanging guitars, the bludgeoned but...

Back in 1997, Burger King abandoned France but the French, no matter their reputation, never retreated from le Whopper. Numerous petitio...