[Pages] - Robert van Vliet

On Motivation and Writing Prompts (2020)
Chance Operations: On chance operations and bias (2020)
The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: On The West Wing, 9/11, language, and violence (2020)
Is Not Chicago: Something about free will and polarities; also, glancingly, Tolstoy and pencils (2019)
On Freedom (2011; revised 2021)
Disbelief: On the idea of “suspension of disbelief” (2003; revised 2019)
New Copies: On artistic creation (2004; revised 2005, 2019)
Blogs: A Brief Reader’s Guide (2003; revised 2019)

Six Zoom Meetings Before Lunch: The enchanting prelude to The Magical Powers of a New Shirt (2020)
Until the End of the World: On a long-vanished and recently reissued film (2019)
On Poetry and Bullshit (2019)
On Morning Pages: If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly (2018)
Nameless Decades (2018)
Drake’s Equation and the Church (2018)

Cadenza: A plaintext version of a poem that first appeared in issue #5 of Wine Cellar Press
Otata: Six poems that first appeared in the now-defunct Otata, with their proper lineations restored

Finished: Books I finish reading each month (January 2019–present)
ATD: Reading guides for several sections of Against the Day from the Chumps of Choice group-read (2007; lightly revised 2019)