An introduction to, and excerpt from my novel, Splitting.

Creative Essays:

River Run Requiem, an essay about soul, hitchhiking, and drowning.

Savor, about sexual attraction and chemistry with lips.

Going Somwhere, true confessions of a bisexual hitchhiker.

Trust Fall, or how to dance madly backwards into love.

Essays in the Histories of Ideas:

Review of Charles Baxter's Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Baxter makes an important contribution to the study of narrative.

With Mouth to Ear: Assaying the Essay. A contribution to the current discussion about "the nonfiction genres," and what it means to tell the truth.

Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was smart, good looking, and torn to pieces.

Etymological Essays:

The Power of Naming, on onomatopoeia.

A Tapestry of Metaphor, on the relation between words for writing & weaving.

Thresholding, about the words "sublime," "sublimation," and "subliminal."

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