1990: "The Horror of Pretentiousness: 'The Great and Secret Show' by Clive Barker ", in The Washington Post 1990: "Michael Martone's Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List", in Harvard Book Review 1990: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress" in The Review of Contemporary Fiction 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1991: "Exploring Inner Space: War Fever by J.G. Ballard", in The Washington Post 1991: "The Million-Dollar Tattoo: Laura's Skin by F.J. Fiederspiel", in New York Times Book Review 1991: "Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness':The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas", in The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review 1991: "Presley as Paradigm: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus", Los Angeles Times 1992: "Kathy Acker's Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels", in Harvard Review 1992: "Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism: The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt", in The Philadelphia Inquirer 1992: reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (vol. 76) 1992: "Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'", The Philadelphia Inquirer 2005: reprinted in Consider the Lobster as "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" 1990: "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", ASFTINDA 1992: published (abbreviated) as "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood" in Harper's 1990: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", ASFTINDA 1993: published (lightly edited and sans footnotes) in Review of Contemporary Fiction 1993: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", ASFTINDA 1994: published as "Ticket to the Fair" in Harper's 1992: "Greatly Exaggerated", ASFTINDA 1992: published as "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" in the Harvard Book Review 1996: "God Bless You, Mr. Franzen", Harper's letter (September 1996) 1994: "Mr. Cogito" in Spin 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1996: "Democracy and Commerce at the US Open" in Tennis (included with NYTM) 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1996: "Impediments to Passion" in Might Magazine 1998: reprinted as "Hail The Returning Dragon, Clothed In New Fire" in Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "Back in New Fire" 1996: "Quo Vadis – Introduction", Review of Contemporary Fiction 1995: "David Lynch Keeps His Head", ASFTINDA 1996: published (severely abbreviated) in Premiere 1995: "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness", ASFTINDA 1996: published as "The String Theory" in Esquire 1995: