Please read my Introduction/Disclaimer about some of these essays.
Why Hoaxes on Postmodern Scholarship Always Succeed (Op-Ed) (October, 2018)
Science vs. the Humanities: Epistemology (Email) (September 20, 2015)
An Outline of a Scientific Cognitive Literary Theory (Conference Paper) (March 7, 2015)
A Critique of Poststructuralism (Conference Paper) (October 24, 2014)
On Reading Swift's Houyhnhnms (Seminar Paper) (May 3, 2012)
You have to read very carefully (Seminar Paper) (December 7, 2011)
On Warbreaker: a novel by Brandon Sanderson (a review) (January 9, 2010)
Emergent Narrative Art in the Novel (November 29, 2009)
Solitaire and the Nature of the Universe (September 14, 2009)
On Fiction (June 4, 2009)
Distributed Peer-to-peer Viruses and Evolving an AI (October 31, 2008)
Vivid Pain (August, 2007)
Tolkien's Greater Genius (February 9, 2009)
My History with Fantasy Fiction (February 2, 2008 & February 9, 2009)
Redemption (April 7, 2008)
No Sleep: Writing Code vs. Writing Novels (March 2, 2008)
Hell (February 13, 2008)
Reading about Writing (and Tolkien) (January 16, 2008)
The Legendarium of Raya (Lifelong work)
An untitled story from my youth (ca.1989)
"I find my mind" (October 1999)