Creative Writing
 

TROUBLE: a Seventies Memoir

Now available — May 2025

Limited edition (now for sale in this sites online store—click here)

In this raucous coming-of-age memoir, Jack Livingston chronicles his life among a group of spirited young midwestern counter-culture outsiders during the tumultuous early 1970s when the country was divided over civil rights, an unjust war, and a criminal president. At age sixteen, the author filed a lawsuit against his high school after they suspended him based on a new dress code that prohibited long hair on boys. Livingston’s life changed drastically as the case went through the courts. Enthralled with the local rough-and-tumble street scene in the nearby factory city of Aurora, Illinois, the author left home to seek meaning and creative purpose. Over the next few years, he discovered more than he bargained for. 

Falling Off the Edge of Nebraska
a chapbook

This small, limited-edition chapbook was created as part of Jack Livingston’s 2021 exhibition of the same name. It is a short reflective memoir recounting a cross-country drive the author took with his older sister in 1967, when his family moved from outside Denver, Colorado, to Hannibal, Missouri.

This text published in Ligeia, Literary Review in September 2019 (click on the below image to read)

And here below also includes an audio reading of the full text by the author.