Poem: Bill Conti Scores The Great American Novel

People talk about The Great American Novel like it’s a thing. It is a thing – but it’s not a book, and it’s never going to be. Bruce Springsteen

probably thinks he’s written The Great American Novel. But he just dragged John Steinbeck down into rock’n’roll.

There are many photographers that have taken The Great American Novel and made it the mythos that i…