Real Life Is Awkward, Sometimes (November 2004)

Dear Diary: A Tragedy of Nonfiction (November 2004)

Topic A: Cell Phones (April 2005)

A Review of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) (June 2005)

Here I Am (August 2005)

Bridging the Gap (August 2005)

If I Had My Way... (August 2005)

Personal Statement (September 2005)

Reflections (October 2005)

This Jester: A Nonfiction Character Sketch (October 2005)

Hell as Archetypical Punishment in Literature (November 2005)

Autobiography and Extrapolations (December 2005)

Memoirs of a Linguaphile (December 2005)

Amusing Anecdote Number 347 (February 2006)

Meditations on Solitaire (August 2006)

Enough is Enough! (October 2006)

"Behold, I Stand at the Door, and Knock": The Messianic Vampire in Stoker's Dracula (October 2006)

"Feel the Tickle of Their Peculiar Shapes": Asexual Changelessness in Rice's Interview (November 2006)

A Hard Knot Unraveled: Cultural Identity and Flexibility in Kipling's Kim (March 2007)

A Review of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959) (March 2007)

"Just as Phony as Yours": Alias and Identity in Hood's Mole (April 2007)

Friends and Brothers (August 2007)

A Linguistic Autobiography (September 2007)

The Fridge Saga (September 2007)

Manipulation and Power Dynamics in the Death of Merlin (December 2007)

Of Ideas Both Good and Bad (December 2007)

The Importance of Not Speaking in the Anthropological Linguistic Framework (March 2008)

Arguing for a Sense of Humor in the African Great Apes (March 2008)

The Comic Vision of Life in Waking Ned Devine (March 2008)

Prophet and God: Tragic and Comic Visions in the Book of Jonah (April 2008)


All essays copyright Joe Kessler.


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