Pseudopodium Topics

Longer essays

Another "True Life" M. K. Brown Romance: What's missing from the cartoonist's career retrospective.
Delany's Dirt: The pornographic novels of Samuel R. Delany.
Down Home Music: Mojo Hand : An Orphic Tale by J. J. Phillips.
Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Selflorist: Aural composition.
Failing towards Freedom: The limits of scientized history, particulary as demonstrated by Henry and Brooks Adams.
High, Low & Lethem: Jonathan Lethem, John Leonard, Steve Gerber, and cross-genre appropriation. (Original weblog version.)
---king Elvis: Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and an accident waiting to happen.
Laura True-Teller and Other Fairy Tales: Laura Riding's Progress of Stories.
Losing It: A Vertigo Restoration Comedy: I link up; I link down... I link up; I link down....
Manifests (for Peli Grietzer): A shared "image", its uses, & its origins:
1. Dedication & Definition
2. Picture Book (or, Fun with Your New Manifold)
3. Adaptive Manifold Learning
No Better than We Should Be: Against the ethical turn in criticism, as represented by three stalwart champions.
Nothing Personal: Undepersonalization in Confessional, New York School, and Language Poetry.
No Single Reason in the World: The limits of evolutionary psychology.
A Personal Anthology: ... of short stories and short introductions.
Reading Leggott's Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers: The pleasure of obstinately difficult poetry.
The Road to Son of Paleface: Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, and Andrew Marvell.
The Terrorist of Malta: The political art of Christopher Marlowe.
Thinking of Cluny Brown: The philosophy of Ernst Lubitsch.
True Enough: Citations in literary scholarship.

Selected shorter essays and serials

Appearance of a World: Poetics of/against science fiction.
Blind Willie McTell: Grace and reputation in popular music.
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.: Keats Lives Again!
An Integral: Gypsy by Carter Scholz.
Josh Lukin, August 18 1968 - July 25 2019: In memory of a friend.
Love or Confusion: Lewis Shiner's Glimpses and other musical stories.
My Acquaintance Anselm Dovetonsils, American Poet: With a not-quite-slim-enough volume.
My Funny Valentine: Laughing at and with post-Victorian poety.
Plunger: A deep dive into Swinburne's sea.
The Quarrel between Philosophy and Philosophers: The goal of the game and the point of the game.
The Second Confiscation: On generic knowledge and ignoring.
The Sissy Gaze in American Cinema: "What grace! What spirit! Hops and flurries delight the eye; acidic comebacks scour the ear canal."
Storytellers: A condensed nonfiction historical collage novel.
Summa ~~contra~~ juxta Gentiles: Credo & apologia.
Things Are Tough All Over: The squandered promises of genre.
Three Anagrams of Jack Spicer's Biography
Three Reputations: What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
Tuesday Weld: "Most impenetrable!" - Entertainment Weekly
The Weeds of Crime: Three movies, one important message: A wimp in a mutally adoring marriage who's threatened by masculine hostility and a job crisis can solve all his problems by joining a bunch of gangsters.
Earlier essays, reviews, and fiction.

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