Essays on the Arts

Whose Art, Whose Agenda?
The Stockhausen Factor: Destruction and Art
Digging a Hole: A Chance Lost
Beckett's Letters (Volume I)
The Slag on Hirst
The Noguchi Museum
Isamu Noguchi
This is Not a Review of John Ashbery's Planisphere
Beckett's Doubles
To Abelard and Heloise
Georges Bataille
Making the Scene: The Man Who Would Not Be King
A Blue Streak
Seductions of Illusion (response to Lethe Bashar)
Lou Reed
The Writing of the Disaster
The Writing of the Disaster and Lucky
Voice and the Fiction Writer
Kafka in a Box
Blanchot, Beckett and the Work
Cindy Sherman: In Praise of the Superficial
Cubic Comedy
Henry Darger: A Ruckus of Questions
The Mysteries of David Lynch
William S. Burroughs: One Man's Dream
Maze
Addendum to Maze
Hart Crane: Building the Virgin
Ashbery's Rules
Lautréamont
Ruminations on Michael Brodsky
Break this Rule!
At First Base with Cy Twombly
My Afternoon with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
Cormac McCarthy and Richard Brautigan
Whose Self?
Describing, with Mark Twain and Alain Robbe-Grillet
Conversations with a Clown by Michael Welzanbach
Persist or Destroy
Brian Eno: Before and after Science
Wallace Fowlie's Lautréamont
The English Translations of Maldoror
Lautréamont and the Misuse of Form
Borges: False Flaws, Holes & Falls
Blanchot's 'The Experience of Lautréamont'