Academic essays
Response to Carl Jung's Introduction to The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
Reflections on "The Queen's Looking Glass"
Response to Frank Kermode’s "On Reading Novels"
Response to Kermode's "What Precisely are the Facts?" from The Genesis of Secrecy
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Rants and Essays on Response to Czeslaw Milosz' Road-side Dog
Essay #001: A Response to the Prologue
Essay #002: A Response to "Narrow Mind"
Essay #003: A Response to "Without Control"
Essay #004: A Response to "The Last Judgment"
Why I Do Not Write (Are you a writer? Am I? Who can claim the title?).
Lost in Place: A Rambling Search for Home (response to Gershom Sholem)
Mother Mutability and the Golden Egg (when we can't control the forces of change--a tug of war between positive and negative)
The Young Pianist (Finalist in the Paul Auster Definitive Website International Short Story Competition) click on the left-hand side link "Brooklyn Follies Competition"
5000 Words on Why I Should Stay the F*** Out of Mr. William Forrester's Apartment (a fictional essay by Jamal Wallace, a character in the film "Finding Forrester")