Schwag
Schwag

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1300304243

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Schwag picks up where Young and Immortal left off, with the introspective poet Eugene and his mischievous muse Horace and their friend Miriam living up their early Twenties on the cusp of the Millenium on the East Side of Milwaukee. Schwag explores the questions of loyalty, addiction, the American Way, casual sex and obsessive love, honesty, meaningless hedonism and significant bullshit. Schwag is not in Oprah's book club. Schwag is the book you borrowed from the bad kid on the playground. Schwag is cheap workingman's dope.

The Knowledge of Good and Evil
The Knowledge of Good and Evil

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1458397351

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The final masterpiece of the Life of Easter series. Poetry, journals, letters, dreams, adventures, from Milwaukee to the Oregon Coast to Seattle and back.

Somewhere Along the Line
Somewhere Along the Line

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-27

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1257124722

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The idea was to create what I would've considered the ultimate utopia, create a character reflective of myself, and have him begin to question and challenge the perfection of that utopia. It was the ultimate mental exercise in open-mindedness. In its imaginative satire, the book raises many questions from all sides of the coin.

Hotel
Hotel

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1300303891

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The omniscient protagonist checks himself into a hotel room for a week with the mission of getting some good writing done in isolation. Every night "at" the "hotel" becomes a different chapter exploring a different fetish "written" out in a dream-like fantasy world where esoterica meets erotica in this meta-book within a book as the author's developing romantic passion for his muse is played out in all its twists and turns. What begins as a lonely tale about a writer and transforms into an erotic sampler of S&M, catholic schoolgirl/teacher, medical, religious, occult, and poetic fantasies, blossoms into the most powerful literary love epic since Dante's Divine Comedy.

Tocqueville in Arabia
Tocqueville in Arabia

Author: Joshua Mitchell

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1641773146

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We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. Tocqueville thought this meant that as each nation left behind the vestiges of its aristocracy, life for its citizens or subjects would be increasingly isolated and lonely. In America, we know of our growing isolation and loneliness. What of the Middle East? In the Middle East today, citizens and subjects live amid a profound tension: Familial and tribal linkages hold them fast, and at the same time rapid modernization has left them as isolated and lonely as so many Americans are today. The looming question, anticipated so long ago by Tocqueville, is how they will respond to this isolation and loneliness. Joshua Mitchell has spent years teaching Tocqueville’s social theory, in America and the Arab Gulf, and with Tocqueville in Arabia, he offers a profound account of how the crisis of isolation and loneliness is playing out in similar and in different ways, in America and in the Middle East. We live in a time rife with mutual misunderstandings between America and the Middle East. Tocqueville in Arabia offers a guide to the present, troubled times, leavened by the author’s hopes about the future.

James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake
James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake

Author: Donald Phillip Verene

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0810133334

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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the Wake go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy" of our souls the "uncreated conscience" of humankind. Verene builds his study on the basis of years of teaching Finnegans Wake side by side with Cusanus, Bruno, and Vico, and his book will serve as a guide to readers of Joyce's novel.