Topics


Origins: Why Do We Write?

Influential Authors 

Different Narrative Styles

What Do Our Secrets Say?

Loss & Identity

Childhood Memories: Best & Worst

UnConventional Sources

Is There A Formula To Good Writing?

Humor: What's So Funny?

Sex: With Or Without A Twist!

Prufrock & The Modern Crisis

Billy Collins: What Poetry Is & Isn't

Analyze, Cannibalize, Or Re-Write A Poem

Will Self: Lecture On "PychoGeography"

Dynamic Characters & Influences: Franzen Lecture

What Are The Limits/Requirements Of Art?

It's Personal: Anxiety, Illness, & Memoir Writing

Salinger's Syncretic Language: Yale Lecture Series

Critique: What Works & What Doesn't

Re-Writing History: Fiction From Truth

Approaching The Short Story As A Form

Free Speech: Who Decides What's (Not) Allowed?

Santa Claus & Hellfire: Why Adults Lie To Kids

The Necessity Of Argument & Debate

Women In Literature: The Romantic Era & Beyond


Has Gender Bias Shifted? 

What Is A Dysfunctional Family?

Travel Journals: Re-Locating Ourselves

The Secular History Of America

Chosen Words: The Power Of Metaphor

"My So-Called Life": Coming Of Age In An MTV Era

What Makes Bad Poetry So Bad?

Ayn Rand: A Critical Consideration

Concepts Of Taboo: Contemporary vs. Traditional 

The Visual Language Of Art

"Through The Wormhole": Science Channel Series

Sam Kieth's "The Maxx": Post-Modern Anti-Hero

Unspoken Truths: Hitchens & The Writer's Voice 

What Is Women's Intuition?

Private Fictions & The Rhetoric Of Fallacy

Dan Ariely: How Irrationality Works

Daniel Simons: Seeing The World As It Isn't

What's The Value Of Reason?

Pinker: Language As A Window Into Human Nature

The Classical Feminist Tradition

Elizabeth Grosz: Reconciling Darwin & Feminism 

Richard Dawkins' Theory Of Memes

Virginia Woolf: Contradiction & Subtext

Pinker & Dawkins: Dangerous Ideas

Sam Harris: A Scientific Basis For Morality

The Illusion Of Free Will

Fitzgerald's Great American Novel

On The Subversive Power Of Love: Franzen Essay

Understanding Zippy: A Comic Guide To MetaFiction 

Reading Like A Writer: Francine Prose  

Sacred, Profane, Mundane: William H. Gass

A Sense Of Austen's Subversion

Speaking With & About The Narrator's Voice

Ars Poetica, Intertextuality & MetaLanguage

Self-Reference: Imitation vs. Limitations Of Life

Wittgenstein's Theory Of Language Games

Updike: Space, Place & Placelessness

 



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