w r i t i n g   &   o t h e r   c r e a t i o n s

Articles, notes, reviews, & book chapters
"The Screenplay, Imagism, and Modern Aesthetics."
Literature/Film Quarterly   2009 (forthcoming)



"Review. Wesley, Marilyn C. Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men. ."
Studies in the Novel 40.3   2008



"Kurt Vonnegut, Voice of a Generation, Goes Silent."
The Centre Daily Times    2007 (May 21)

Reprinted as “The Voice of a Generation Goes Silent,” The Bridge (Winter 2008): 12-13.
"Ontological Anxiety Made Flesh: The Zombie in Literature, Film and Culture."
The Monstrous Rodopi  2007



"Interview with Carlton Mellick, III."
Zombie-A-GoGo Interviews   2006 (Oct. 17)



"Light Sabers and Kaiser Blades."
Nota Bene    2005 (Spring)



"Penguins and Psychos."
Nota Bene    2005 (Fall)



"PSMA Considering Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts."
The Fourth Wall    2005 (Fall)



"Postnuclear Visionary or Literary Vinegarroon? Chuck Palahniuk Shifts the Landscape of American Fict."
The Fourth Wall    2005 (Spring)



"A Fourth Wall for the Fifth Estate."
The Fourth Wall    2004 (Fall)



"Gilbert Sorrentino: Cataloging The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things."
Review of Contemporary Fiction 23.1    2003 (January)

Reprinted in Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, by Gilbert Sorrentino. Ed. David Andrews. Series Ed. Robert McLaughlin. Dalkey Archive Press. (Fall 2003).

"Bio. “Kurt Vonnegut.” ."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s.  Scribners  2003



"Bio. Truman Capote."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s Scribners  2003



"Bio. Elaine May."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s Scribners  2003



"Review of Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters (New York: Hyperion, 2002)."
Creative Screenwriting   2002



"Human 911: Spectacle & Tragedy."
Creative Screenwriting   2002



"Vonnegut Films."
At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut State University of New York Press  2001

Written with David Pringle.
"The Poetics and the Screenplay: Revisiting Aristotle."
Creative Screenwriting 8.3    2001



"Bio. Timothy Leary."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. V4 1994-1996 Scribners  2001



"Publishing Group Projects: Decentering the Writing Classroom."
Teaching English in the Two-Year College 26.3    1999 (March)



"In Defense of John Carpenter's Thing."
Creative Screenwriting   1999



"Dialogue, Discourse, and Dialectics: The Rhetoric of Capitalism in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross."
Creative Screenwriting. 5.3    1998



"Bio. Efrem Zimbalist, Sr."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. V2 Scribners  1998



"Bio. Jack Albertson."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. V2 Scribners  1998



"Bio. Johnny Marks."
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. V1 Scribners  1998



"In Debt to Dashiell: John Huston's Adaptation of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon."
Creative Screenwriting   1997 (Summer)



"Scripting Gender: Writing Difference."
Creative Screenwriting 4.1   1997 (Spring)



"The Problem with Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five."
Notes on Contemporary Literature. 56.2   1996



"Vonnegut's Archi-Texts."
Los Angeles Literary Review. 1.1    1995



"Stoning Tarantino: Oliver Stone's (re)Vision of Quentin Tarantino's Natural Born Killers."
Creative Screenwriting 1.4   1994 (Winter)



"Temple Defiled: The Brainwashing of Temple Drake in Faulkner's Sanctuary."
Faulkner Journal 6.2    1993 (Spring)



"Vertical Analysis of Word Choice. ."
Teaching English in the Two-Year College 20   1993 (February)