I. Men

Comp Lit 101: advice from my dad

Bloodline to star power

Mr. Big

Father's Day

Eulogy for my father

The groundling

Everything I know I've learned from my bad back

Men and games and guns

Letter to my father

II. Women

Motherhood

Love is a dog from hell

Usher

Gookus explains the eternal mysteries

Desire

Reflection in a one-way mirror

Satire

Ode to the Donner party

Rebecca's journal

The sheer joy of amoral creation

A brief survey of ideal desire

Love is illusion

Postcards from Rachel, abroad

Economies of desire

Despair

Mask of masks

Delilah

Karen

A fable

III. Athletes

Another fable

Words can't begin to describe what I'm feeling

Heaven is a playground

Life is not a playground

44 tattoos

White bronco

Being random is the key to life

Bring the pain

History of America, #34

Blindness

Everybody's a winner

The whole of American life is a drama acted out upon the body of a Negro giant

IV. Performers

The same air

Information sickness

Why we live a the movies

Why we live at the movies (ii)

Why we live at the movies (iii)

Radio

Problems and solutions to problems

Radio (ii)

The subject at the vanishing point

Life/art

Robert Capa, misunderstood

Doubt

The only solution to the soul is the senses

Almost famous

Stars

He was there; he wasn't really there: dreams about Kurt Cobain

Contemporary film criticism

V. Alter egos

Almost famous (ii)

The sixties

The smarter dog knows when to disobey

The heroic mode

The wound and the bow

The cultural contradictions of late capitalism

Negotiating against myself

Love this

Love this (ii)

Remoteness

Surviving with wolves

The unknown life

Life story

Notes on the local swimming hole

Love is not a consolation

love is a light

All our secrets are the same.