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HarperCollins published my first five books, all in the "Brush Up" series of
guides to Western literature and ideas. The first and most successful of these was
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1990), a catalogue of the most used and abused
Shakespearean coinages, including glosses of the scenes in which they originally
appeared. I also survey "faux Shakespeare" (misattributed phrases)
and book titles borrowed from the Bard.
Between 1990 and 2000, I wrote about a book a year, all roughly in the same vein but on different subjects. Four more "Brush Up" books cover topics from Greek and Roman history and myth to deconstruction and quantum mechanics. Most recently, in 1997 Cader/Andrews and McMeel published Naughty Shakespeare, and in 2000 HarperPerennial published a revised edition of Brush Up Your Shakespeare! in paperback. |
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Insight Guides: Crossing America Simon & Schuster, 1986 [out of print] Co-author; in this first edition, I covered the southern route from Savannah to San Diego. |
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It's Greek to Me! Brush Up Your Classics HarperCollins, 1991 A guide to common sayings and concepts deriving from classical literature. |
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Eureka! What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained HarperCollins, 1994 A tour through the "great ideas" of Western culture. Published as A Little Knowledge in Great Britain. |
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Animalogies "A Fine Kettle of Fish" and 150 Other Animal Expressions Doubleday, 1995 [out of print] Animal metaphors, where they came from, and whether they have anything to do with reality. |
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Brush Up Your Poetry! Cader/Andrews & McMeel, 1996 "In one ear and out the other"? Chaucer. "Not with a bang but a whimper"? Eliot. |
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