Richard Mitchell - Bibliography

Bibliography

Links to online texts are given where available.

• The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter published nine times yearly from 1977 to 1983, eight times yearly from 1984 to 1989, five times in 1990, and four times in 1991.
• Four books:
  • Less Than Words Can Say, 1979.
  • The Graves of Academe, 1981.
  • The Leaning Tower of Babel, 1984.
  • The Gift of Fire, 1987.
• The Psyche Papers, a collection of four essays on Lucius Apuleius's The Golden Ass, published in the final four issues of The Underground Grammarian:
  • "Dry Bones in a Dry Season", 1991.
  • "Reading the Real Truth", 1991.
  • "Intimations of Possibility", 1991.
  • "Psyche in Darkness", 1991.
• Four "Great Booklets", compilations of "Vexatious Readings" from various authors, attributed to "The Underground Tractarian Society":
  • The First Great Booklet: A Leaflet for the Masses
  • The Second Great Booklet
  • The Third Great Booklet
  • The Fourth Great Booklet
• The King of American and Other Pieces, a pamphlet, also attributed to The Underground Tractarian Society, containing the essays "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle", "Hunger in America", and "Why Good Grammar?".
• Various uncollected essays, articles, and speeches, including:
  • "Why Good Grammar?", an article published in National Forum, 1985.
  • "The Gift of Fire", or "Writing Against Your Life", a speech presented at a writers' conference in 1986, and later adapted into the fifth chapter of The Gift of Fire.
  • "What to Do till the Undertaker Comes", a supplement to The Underground Grammarian, year unknown.
  • "Guarding the Guardians of the Guards", a supplement to The Underground Grammarian, year unknown.