Writing about literature that’s not sf or world lit.
| Date | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-05 | “Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer” | The first draft of a chapter I wrote for Mailer in Context. |
| 2018-10-03 | “The Existential Situation: The Making of Mailer’s Early Protagonists” | A look at some of Mailer’s protagonists in his short fiction. |
| 2014-10-15 | “Breaking Bad: Walter White’s Hipster Transformation” | Looking at Walter White as a post-9/11 Mailerian hipster. |
| 2013-02-23 | “Norman’s ‘Mailer’” | Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth. |
| 2013-01-25 | “The Minuet of Macho” | Norman Mailer’s 1959 short story “The Time of Her Time” shows his Hipster at work, but has fun with him at the same time. |
| 2013-01-22 | “Mailer’s Adverts & Hipster” | Reading key excerpts from Advertisements for Myself. |
| 2009-10-24 | “Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil” | Norman Mailer famously stated that technology was the work of the devil. Sometimes it’s best to keep the devil close. |
| 2004-07-14 | “On Kafka's Metamorphosis” | A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life. |
| 2004-03-30 | “Virginia Woolf and The Hours” | Do we live in or just tolerate the hours? |
| 2004-02-10 | “What Place Evolution?” | An observation on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” |
| 2004-01-13 | “You Can’t Go Home Again” | Some notes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 short story “Babylon Revisited.” |
| 1997-10-06 | “Healthy Blasphemy: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” | My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997. |
| 1994-04-09 | “Bulgakov and Pasternack” | Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics. |
| 1993-12-19 | “Revisionary Mythmaking” | On Adrienne Rich and “Diving in the Wreck.” |