LITERATURE

JUST OUT DECEMBER 2010

Open Range: Grief, Humor, Music and Other Occasions

Open Range: Grief, Humor, Music and other Occasions explores ties between Schopenhauer's philosophy and Neil Young's music, the differences between collecting music and enjoying it, and the relationship between our evolutionary aural heritage and music. Read a small portion of the work.  Whitehead's notion of the "occasion", the smallest bit of subjective experience, founds other essays on the self, the muse, and humor--each a kind of occasion in itself.

       Read about the self; 

Read about hesuchia;

Read a piece on humor;

or read how sensitivity shrinks one's world


For a short time, read the entire manuscript;

 

 

And still available:

Look for Loving Allis Chalmers:  Reflections From Agraria  To Be Released December 2007!  See the Table of Contents. For an excerpt click here or here.

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  •  His recent collection, Leaving the Bucket:  Searching for the Sacred in Addiction, was released in October 2005. The book contains 17 essays on the nature of alcoholism in a rural setting, investigating its form as a search for the promising context of the sacred. To read a portion of the work,  click here 

     

  Or, for a short time, read the entire manuscript online.click here

        

       click on the cover image to see an enlarged version, or read the introduction

 

His 2002 work, No Sage:  Essays From The Margin, was a finalist for the Idaho Book Award. The collection, a series of essays describing a life of trapping, flower farming, and bee-rearing in remote Southeast Idaho, has been described as "Bacon-esque". To read an excerpt, click here, or purchase a copy. You can also get a copy at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble   .


          cover copyright 2002 by Jeriann Sabin

 

Or, for a short time, read the entire manuscript online.click here