The Broccoli Book: Literary Criticism, Column Articles, and Personal Essays

I joke with the people who read my prose that writing my erotic literary fiction is like baking lasagna. The plot and characterization and style are the meat, pasta, and cheese; the naughty bits are all sauce; and then I go and ruin everything by sneaking philosophical discourse, literary discussion, and other nonsense in there like broccoli bits.

Well, this book is nothing but broccoli.

Some of it consists of stuff I transcribed from handwritten or typed stuff I wrote in the 1990's, because I'm in the process of purging clutter from my home, but any new essays I write will be stuffed in here as well, either in the first section, which is the academic part, or in the second section, which is is for the personal essays and the things I wrote for an arts and entertainment column I once had as co-editor of that section of the campus newspaper, back in my undergraduate days.