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I've written nine books best described as entertaining guides to literary and intellectual history. I began in 1990 with Brush Up Your Shakespeare! -- a particular specialty -- and then moved on to classical writings, mythology, the Bible, and great ideas. (See Books for more details.) |
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HarperCollins published the second edition of Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
in 2000 with an added chapter on Shakespearean films. In the fall of 1997, Cader Books / Andrews & McMeel published Naughty Shakespeare, an irreverant survey of the Bard's huge catalogue of vice. It reveals what the footnotes usually don't: that our all-encompassing Poet encompassed a lot of things people wish he hadn't. That includes a fair helping of sex, violence, crime, horror, anti-authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, sexism, jealousy, profanity, satire, controversy, and political incorrectness of all kinds. Brush Up Your Poetry! (Cader / Andrews & McMeel), a tour through some of the best-remembered lines from English and American verse, appeared late in 1996. Earlier that year, Crown published Lessons on Living from Shakespeare, a collection of the Bard's little instructions on the economy, love, the economics of love, virtues and vices, judgment and law, greatness and knowledge. |
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You may also have seen my articles and columns in InterActivity, a now-defunct magazine for multimedia authors. In addition to writing the "Browser Window" column, I contributed feature stories on Web GUI design, Dynamic HTML, Hotwired, and CNET. I also reviewed various Web authoring and design products, including Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe PageMill, and GIF plugins for Photoshop. I also wrote liner notes for Be
Thou Now Persuaded, a
Shakespeare spoken-word box set compiled by Rhino Records. |
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| c o l u m n s Ruminations on the Net from 1994 and 1998 |
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| b o o k s More details about my publications |
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