Donald Brown has taught writing and literature at Yale and published essays on Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, and others. He is an editor and critic for the New Haven Review, and has a degree in art history and comparative literature from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University, as a Mellon fellow. Since 2006, he has maintained blogocentrism, a blog on music, movies, books, and writing. A native of Delaware, he has lived in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1999 where he supports local theater. He has attended over twenty Dylan concerts, beginning in 1978 and most recently in 2013, and prefers vinyl records to other music technologies. And he still makes mix tapes.