Neil Simon – an American Master of Schlemiel Comedy – Passes

Saving Money, Finding Smallness: On “Downsizing”

Theodor Adorno’s Force Fields and Camille Paglia’s Killing Fields

The World is Messed Up and Jerry Lewis is Dead

On Kevin Hart’s Schlemiel Tale: The “Jay-Z Pineapple Juice Story”

Drifting in the Clouds: On the Schlemiel, Affect, and Pig Pen

Chronicles of Smallness, or Becoming “Infrathin” in the Digital World

You Look Ridiculous: Don Rickles, Jewish American Anxiety, and Insult Comedy

Gong(ed): Chuck Barris (Charles Hirsch) Has Left the Stage

Women Can Be Schlemiels? Reflecting on Contemporary Schlemiels of the “Opposite Sex”

Shem, Japheth, and Stoom: On James Joyce’s Reading of Japheth

George in Oil, or a Schlemiel on Canvas

A Comical Alphabet of Postmodern Horror: On “Mannix” & Walter Abish’s “Ardor/Awe/Atrocity”

On Thomas Pynchon’s Comical Figurations of Slowness & Sloth

Fat Jews: On Fat Jew and Thomas Pynchon’s Depiction of Nathan “Lardass” Levine

Mortality, Jewishness & Leonard Cohen’s Comedic Moments

The (Sch-Sch) Sounds of a Misfortunate (Sch)lemiel in Wilco’s New Album: Schmilco

Another Kind of Schlemiel: On Gene Wilder, Family, Comedy, Melancholy & Prayer

On Kafka’s Sit Down Comedy

Coming Out of a Daze (A Reflection on Melancholy, Poetry, and You)

On Literary Pain: Comic and Tragic (From John Updike and Franz Kafka to Louis CK)

Sleeplessness, Insomnia and Ambien: On Jonathan Crary’s “24/7”

He Died on Purim: On Garry Shandling, Smallness, Self-Deprecation & The Meta-Schlemiel

Millennials & The Smelly End of Literature

A Worn Out Prophet: On Charles Baudelaire’s Vision of Apocalypse

Umberto Eco’s Last Laugh: On Theology, Philosophy, and The Laughing Creature

Charles Baudelaire, “My Little Melancholy Monkey”

It’s Also a Memory Machine: On Kafka’s American Desk

Seeing Things Differently: Vision, Judgment, and Being (Re)Born in Kafka’s America

Isn’t that Awkward? On What’s Missing in Franz Kafka’s “Amerika”