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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. Since then, I've written 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 & McMeel published Naughty Shakespeare.  |
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Insight Guides: Crossing America (Simon & Schuster, 1986) [published in paper] In the "Insight Guide" series of travel books; 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) [now in paper] A guide to common sayings and concepts deriving from classical literature |
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By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology (HarperCollins, 1992) [also in paper] Same deal, only with the focus on myth. |
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Eureka! What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained (HarperCollins, 1994) [cloth, paper] A tour through the "great ideas" of Western culture. |
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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) [cloth] "In one ear and out the other"? Chaucer. "Not with a bang but a whimper"? Eliot. |
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Naughty Shakespeare (Cader/Andrews & McMeel, 1997) [cloth] Smut and controversy from the Bard of Avon. |
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