Senseless Acts Of Literature

This is another way station on the way to other places. Herein you will find links to "literary" essays and reviews, to poetry and fiction I have written, and links to other salons on the web. Essays and reviews that are specific to the SF field will be found on my science fiction page. My essays page includes links to all of the general essays in this site, including the ones listed here.

A Book Called Nabokov
The Face of God
Bonobo, The Forgotten Ape (review)
The Muse In The Machine (review)
A Christmas Carol Revisited
Sex On The Brain, biological differences between men and women
The Symbolic Species (review)
The Little Kings
The Many Lives of Nathan Childers
Guardian's Key -- a review
Childe Martha, a review
How to build a dinosaur, a review
A Fine and Private Place, a review
The Doppelganger of Dabney Prood
Swords, Rings, and The Lord Of The Rings
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder
Feet of Clay (review)
The Death of Fiction
Sons Of the Bird
Dreams of a Lesser God
The Man Who Was Thursday
Intellectual Impostures
The Napoleon of Crime
Istanbul, The Imperial City
This Ol' Drought Ain't Broke Us Yet
Decline and Fall of the Sioux Nation
The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight
Fashionable Nonsense
Mahler and Sons
The Pattern of Evolution
A Nightmare In Polychrome
Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike
Road to Endor
Three Faces of Adam
A Talent to Deceive
The Confessions of Ayn Rand
The Village Cats
Whose Song Is Sung
The Hell-Fire Club
Radical Son
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes
The Emergence of Whales
The New Evolutionary Timetable
The Cosmic Anthropic Principle
William Martin
Fatland
Lucifer's Hammer
Sam Woke
The Blank Slate (review)
Wittgenstein's Ghost
Book reviews by Nathan Childers
The Man Who Folded Himself
Tales of the Taoist Immortals
The Tale of Krispos
The Mote In God's Eye
The Door Into Winter
The Dragon Sword
The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview
We Three Queens of Orient Are

What is the point of Literary Theory?
Ravens, Writing Desks, Cattle Chutes and Literary Theory
Toto and the Elgin Marbles
Deconstruction As a Hallmark Moment
Well Met In Philadelphia
Language and three headed cows
A Note on Aardvark Symbolism in Late Castilian Literature.

A Hero's Death
A Parisian Midsummer's Night Dream
Image of the Book
A Village Named Affectation
The Man Who Wrote The Necronomicon
My Dinner at Andre's
A Question of Identity
A Love Story
The Deuce of Diamonds
Grandfather Lizard
Grampa Tells a Story
A Christmas Story
The Little Boy, The Piglet, and The Elf In The Well
The Stone of St. Ambercroft
The Archivist
A Dinner Best Served Cold
The Scream of Nightingales
The Shoe Salesman
The man who thought he was stupid
Jenny's Tail
How much is that doggy in the window?
The Man Who Only Saw Bricks
The Golden Coin of God
The many selves of Wendover Jones
Nameless Crimes
A Whore In The Knight
Writer's Block
It happened one day
The Sausage Makers of Philadelphia
My First Trophy
The ghost of Christmas past
Hanging Out At Louie's Place
The Lady With Borzois
Just One Of The Guys
The frog who was a prince
The Vampire
Catching Rabbits
Coin Operated Amusements
A City in the Sand
The rise and fall of Ebenezer Feingaster
Howard's Christmas
God, Dreaming
Friday Night at the Chocolate Pussycat
The Bore
Next Thursday
A walk through the universe
The Diary of Sebastian Lord
The Lettuce Wine Story
Lord Geste - Chapter XVII
Penelope
The Goatherder
A time for life, a time for lists
In your next and future life ...
Two Roses in Provence
Good Bye Father, I love you
The Dancers
Genesis
In your next and future life ...
The Book of True Names
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
The Three Stones
Endgame
The Prince Who Fell To Earth
The Chameleon
The tale of the two sisters
The Adventures of Roger Dodger, Space Cadet, Chapter VII
The Shadow Wars
Parchman's Folly
The Wanderer
A Night In Utopia
The old man and the samurai
Gustave Petrovsky
Gray horses in the mist

On the definition of definition
Writing the perfect review
The Fine Art Of Reviewing
A review of moggin's post-modernism FAQ
Waiting for Godot in various modes
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
On the Road to Ventimiglia
Cassandra Forgetting
Have You Heard This One? (Steve Witham)
A Discussion on the Art of Writing
Spam, spam on the range
The Cookbook of Jean-Paul Sartre
Reflections On C.S. Lewis
Young Adult Fantasy
Tuatara
Two Adams, two Eves, and other thoughts
A Literary Conversation
Speaking for the book
Robert Heinlein - an appreciation
Only A Grumble
Accuracy and the Conventionality of Artifice
A Brief biography of "Calamity" Jane Austin
Rite Gud on the Internet
Noam Chomsky and Ayn Rand
Dungeons and Dragons
Today I Killed Grandfather
Good and Evil, Fascism and Hogwarts
Politics, Literature, and Harry Potter
Is it your poor child, my dear?
Who wants to be a history professor?
Notes on a passage by de Man
Fiction lies within the bookends of summer
On not being a lady
The Virgin of Snath
Good reviews for bad books
What happens in Room 101?
Relativistic Semiotics
The Calamity Jane Austin Hoax
Implications of a choice of phrasing
Elaborate lies, Leonard Cohen, and Petra
Petra
Nine fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom
The face upon the floor
Great literary taunts
Return to the Empire
Land tenure in the Empire

Poetry -- master page
Poetry -- morning songs
Poetry -- interlude
Poetry -- evening songs
Poetry -- wild flowers
Collected Sonnets
Zhandivar
The Raven King
The keeper of her soul
Reflections on Zhandivar
Lions and Zebras, Oh My
Notes on The Raven King
Notes on The keeper of her soul

Politics and the English Language
Classics at the Online Literature Library
The home page of Lawrence Watt-Evans
Jane Austen Info Page
Cult Fiction, an e-zine featuring Bukowski
The Zuzu's Petal's Literary Resource Homepage
BookWire - starting point for book info searches
The Georgette Heyer Home Page
Derrida and Deconstruction
Nevil Shute Home Page
The Jane Austin Home Page
Gazette Of The Arts
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
"But It Is Above All Not True": Derrida, Relativity, and the "Science Wars"
An alt.postmodern Newsgroup FAQ
The Dada Engine

The diaries of Etienne Bonet were widely regarded as the quintessential exhibit of pre-modernist 19th century fiction. That the author of these purported diaries of a bizarre eccentric could not be determined was held to be part of their charm, that anonymity gave the works a timelessness and placelessness of time and place. The unfortunate discovery that the works were not fiction, that there was a tedious little man named Etienne Bonet, and that the diaries were merely diaries quite destroyed their literary value and they were hastily stricken from the canon.

- The Encyclopedia of Fictional Fiction