SELECTED ESSAYS AND SQUIBS by Joseph Suglia
VIDEO ESSAYS
VIDEO: Lecturing on Nietzsche’s BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL and Reading My WHOLE English Translation
VIDEO: Jacques Derrida Is Overrated
VIDEO: What Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: What Does This Mean?
VIDEO: My Neighbors Are Bothering Me
VIDEO: Reading My ENTIRE Novel TABLE 41 for You
VIDEO: What Is the Meaning of Life?
VIDEO: My Screenplay Was Made Into an Audio Play
VIDEO: Sam Harris Is Overrated
VIDEO: The Alchemy of the Mind and the Illusion of Time
VIDEO: CHANGE TITLE [ADD VIDEO]
VIDEO: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS / ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY / ZUR GENEALOGIE DER MORAL
VIDEO: WHAT IS THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME?
Table of Contents
SQUIBS
Aphorisms on Consumerism and Genius
Aphorisms on Racism, Cultural Studies, and Kim Jong-un
Aphorisms on Libertarianism, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis
My Favorite Writers, My Favorite Music, My Favorite Films
Three Aperçus: On DEADPOOL (2016), David Foster Wallace, and Beauty
Three Aperçus: THE NEON DEMON (2016) and Envy
Bob Dylan Is Overrated: On Bob Dylan Being Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016
The Red Pig Kitchen: BANNED by Yelp
Happy Father’s Day: Or, Chopo Chicken: BANNED by Yelp
Analogy Blindness: I Invented a Linguistic Term
David Foster Wallace and Macaulay Culkin: Two Aperçus
On the Distinction between the flâneur and the boulevardier
Ordering a Pizza at the Standard Market Grill in Lincoln Park: BANNED by Yelp
Coronavirus Poem and Cruise Ship Poem
THE NIETZSCHE COMMENTARIES
HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN / MENSCHLICHES, ALLZUMENSCHLICHES
DAYBREAK / MORGENRÖTHE: GEDANKEN ÜBER DIE MORALISCHEN VORURTHEILE
THE GAY SCIENCE / DIE FRÖHLICHES WISSENSCHAFT
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA / ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS / ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY / ZUR GENEALOGIE DER MORAL
What Is the Eternal Recurrence of the Same?: Part Two
What Does This Mean?: “God is dead”
What Does This Mean?: “What does not kill me makes me stronger”
Jordan Peterson Does Not Understand Nietzsche
OVERESTIMATING / UNDERESTIMATING SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME ONE: THE COMEDIES, PROBLEM PLAYS, AND LATE ROMANCES
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR, WHAT YOU WILL
VOLUME TWO: THE TRAGEDIES
THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
THE MOST LAMENTABLE ROMAN TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS
THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Racism and Shakespeare: Was Shakespeare a Racist?
What, If Anything, Does Donald Trump Have in Common with Julius Caesar?
PHILIPPICS
Mark Z. Danielewski Is a Bad Writer: Part Two: On ONLY REVOLUTIONS by Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski Is a Bad Writer: Part Three: On THE FIFTY-YEAR SWORD by Mark Z. Danielewski
Quentin Tarantino Is an Anti-Black Racist
California Über Alles: Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part One: On FIGHT CLUB by “Chuck” Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part Two: On STRANGER THAN FICTION by “Chuck” Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part Three: On RANT by “Chuck” Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part Four: On SNUFF by “Chuck” Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part Five: On TELL-ALL by “Chuck” Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk Is a Bad Writer: Part Six: On DAMNED by “Chuck” Palahniuk
On THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss
On THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST by Mel Gibson
On THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
On EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer: Jonathan Safran Foer Is a Bad Writer, Part One
On EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer: Jonathan Safran Foer Is a Bad Writer, Part Three
On CHRONIC CITY by Jonathan Lethem
Malcolm Gladwell Is a Bad Writer: Part One: On BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell Is a Bad Writer: Part Two: On OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell
Dave Eggers Is a Bad Writer: Part One: On A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers
Karl Ove Knausgaard Is a Bad Writer: On MIN KAMP / MY STRUGGLE, Volume One by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard Is a Bad Writer: On MIN KAMP / MY STRUGGLE, Volume Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard
David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer: Part One: OBLIVION
David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer: Part Two: A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING THAT I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN
David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer: Part Three: BOTH FLESH AND NOT
David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer: Part Four: CONSIDER THE LOBSTER
David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer: Part Five: INFINITE JEST
Jonathan Franzen Is a Bad Writer: On FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen
On WHY YOU SHOULD READ KAFKA BEFORE YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE by James Hawes
On THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold
Craig Clevenger Is a Bad Writer: Part One: On DERMAPHORIA by Craig Clevenger
Girl Gone Rogue: Concerning Sarah Palin
MORE LITERARY AND CINEMATIC CRITICISM
I Prefer Not to Misinterpret: Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
So Long, Planet Earth!: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
Keats and the Power of the Negative: On “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
On “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D.H. Lawrence
Why I Can’t Stand Georges Bataille
On A MA SOEUR by Catherine Breillat
On ROBERTE CE SOIR and THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES by Pierre Klossowski
Escape from Utopia: Bret Easton Ellis
On GILES GOAT-BOY by John Barth
On LIPSTICK JUNGLE by Candace Bushnell
On IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY by Kathy Acker
On O, DEMOCRACY! by Kathleen Rooney
On THE CASSEROLE CLUB by Steve Balderson
On THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
On VICTOR/VICTORIA by Blake Edwards
On EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES by Tom Robbins
On A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE by Anaïs Nin
On ROBINSON ALONE by Kathleen Rooney
Dennis Cooper and the Demystification of Love
On THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson