Collected Works

of David Lavery

Creativity

Essays/Articles/Book Chapters/Reviews

“Creative Work: On the Method Howard Gruber.” The Journal of Humanistic Psychology 33 (1993): 101-21.

David Lavery and Robert J. Thompson. “David Chase, The Sopranos, and Television Creativity.” This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos 18-25.

“Deadwood, David Milch, and Television Creativity.” Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By 1-7.

“The Genius of Joss Whedon.” Afterword to Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002: 251-56.

“How Barfield Thought: The Creative Life of Owen Barfield.” Owen Barfield: A Centennial Conference, Columbia University and Drew University (December 1998)

“’I Only Had a Week’: TV Creativity and Quality Television.” Invited Keynote Address: Contemporary American Quality Television: An International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (March 2004).

“The Imagination of Insurance: Wallace Stevens and Benjamin Lee Whorf at the Hartford.” Legal Studies Forum 24(3 & 4) (2001): 481-92.

“The Imagination will be Televised: Showrunning and the Re-animation of Authorship in 21^st American Television.” Keynote, Television Symposium (Merz Academy, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2010).

“Impossible Girl: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Television Creativity.” Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Ed. Scott Diffrient, with David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse U P, 2010: 3-18.

“’Magic Terminal Trip’: The Creative Life of Dr. Alice Sheldon.” Women and Power Conference, MTSU, (February 1999).

“’My So Called Life Meets The X-Files’: Winnie Holzman’s Influence on Joss Whedon.” Dear Angela: Remembering My So Called Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007: 211-216.

“Noticer: The Visionary Art of Annie Dillard.” Massachusetts Review 21 (1980): 255-70.

“A Religion in Narrative: Joss Whedon and Television Creativity.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Number 7 (2002). http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage7/Lavery.htm.

Review of TV Creators: Conversations with America’s Top Producers of Television Drama, Volume Two, by James Longworth, Jr. Television Quarterly 33.4 (Spring 2003): 105-107.

“Rob Thomas and Television Creativity.” Investigating Veronica Mars. Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Sue Turnbull. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2010.

“’Secret Shit’: The Uncertainty Principle, Lying, Deviance, and the Movie Creativity of the Coen Brothers.” Post Script 27.2 (2008): 141-153.

“The Tenth Symphony.” Georgia Review 35 (1981): 583-93. Finalist for the 1982 Pushcart Prize in Non-fiction. (Translated into Portuguese and republished in Brazil as “Decima Sinfonia” in Cultura, 1 August 1982.)