- The Western Canon: A Beginner's Guide
- Six Waves of Modernism
- Digging The Tunnel; or, I Enter a Sentence by William H. Gass
- On the Great American Novel
- Quite Possibly the Funniest Commercial Ever Made
- The Long, Long, Long Sentence: An Interlinear Elegy for William H. Gass
- Three Kinds of Imagination
- The Sexual Surrealism of Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray
- The Good America
- Walking London in my Mind (for Roger Ebert)
- Curley's Glove: Interpreting a Sexual Symbol in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
- MFA vs NYC vs Reality
- Finite Notes on Infinite Jest (Part 1 ; Part 2)
- Poetry After Auschwitz: What Adorno Really Said, and Where He Said It
- On the First Three Chapters of Joyce's Ulysses ("Telemachus"; addendum; "Nestor"; "Proteus")
- Pour Joyce: Eighteen Joycean Thoughts for Bloomsday (2011)
- On Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian (Post 1; Post 2; Post 3)
- My Sixty-Odd Literary Pillars (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7)
- Why I am an Atheist
- The Proustian Simile
- On Jargon (with an attempt to explain Derrida in 279 nonjargony words)
- The Golden Rule of Storytelling (as exemplified by Breaking Bad)
- "The Trees" by Philip Larkin: A Close Reading
- Notes on Technology
- Transparency, Translucency, Opacity: Some Thoughts on the Continuum of Novelistic Prose
- On the Four Novels of W. G. Sebald (Vertigo; The Emigrants; The Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz)
- Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening": A Close Reading
- After Re-reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
- On Hemingway's May 28, 1934, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4)
- Rambling Round Ulysses: A Blooming Blog for Bloomsday (2009)
- Notes on Proust's Swann's Way (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3)
- A Few Rules for Reading
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
The Best of MINDFUL PLEASURES
Now that Mindful Pleasures is over a decade old and past its 600-post mark, I guess it's time for a bit of curation--if not exactly a "Mindful Pleasures Greatest Hits," at least a "Best of" CD. So here's my personal selection of the best things I've written on MP over the past ten years. (Click on the links to read the posts.)