"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", ASFTINDA 1996: published as "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise" in Harper's 1996: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky", CTL 1996: published as "Feodor's Guide" in Voice Literary Supplement (book review) 1997: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again 1997: "Twilight of the Great Literary Beasts: John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for the Magnificent Narcissist?", The New York Observer book review 1998: reprinted (edited) in CTL as "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think: (Re John Updike's Towards the End of Time)" 1998: "Big Red Son", CTL 1998: published (abbreviated and bowdlerized) as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" in Premiere under the names Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet 1998: "The Nature of the Fun" in Fiction Writer 1998: published in Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Will Blythe, ed.) 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1998: "F/X Porn" in Waterstone's Magazine 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2" 1998: "Laughing with Kafka", Harper's 1999: reprinted (with different footnotes) in CTL as "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed" 1999: "Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960" in Salon 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1999: "100-word statement", Rolling Stone 2000: "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama" (heavily edited) in Science 2000: response to letter in response 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2000: "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub", Rolling Stone 2000: reprinted (greatly expanded and with a preface) as Up, Simba!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate 2005: reprinted (verbatim) in Consider the Lobster 2008: reprinted (with a foreword by Jacob Weisberg) as McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope 1999: "Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)" in CTL 2001: published (revised and abbreviated) as "Tense Present: Democracy, English and the wars over usage" 2001: "The Best of the Prose Poem" in Rain Taxi 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2001: "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", CTL 2001: "9/11: The View From the Midwest" appeared in Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001 (also published online by Rolling Stone with the first