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MOST RECENT ESSAY
The Rainbow Connection
"I suppose what I would like to do, somehow, is be a Muppet. At least, for a brief moment. To see the world through Muppet eyes, and accomplish Kermit’s dream of 'making millions of people happy...'"
BEST OF BALCKWELL
RAINICHI 2023
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
- RAINICHI 2023 #000 – An Introduction
- RAINICHI 2023 #000.5 - An Immediate Digression Concerning the Japanese Language
- RAINICHI 2023 #001 PROLOGUE +
RAINICHI 2023 #001 PROLOGUE ADDENDUM
Best of Personal Essays
- In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
- The Graveyard Story
- You Can (Not) Go Back
Best of Criticism
- Kafka’s Nightmares
- On the Road to Nekomachi
- The Boy and the Heron
- In Xanadu
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica