I've written nine books best described as entertaining guides to literary and intellectual history. I began with Brush Up Your Shakespeare! (HarperCollins, 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.

Four more “Brush Up” titles followed from Harper, handling topics from Greek and Roman history and myth to deconstruction and quantum mechanics. Books in a similar vein would issue from Doubleday, Anchor, and Andrews McMeel, culminating with Naughty Shakespeare.

In April 2019, Last Gasp published Jon B. Cooke's The Book of Weirdo, to which I contributed an overview of the legendary ’80s comix magazine.

I also made editorial contributions to Jill Gentile’s Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, published in April 2016 by Karnac Books (Routledge).