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Life in a cultural poor environment. All stories of 30 years writing. The growth of the writer in style and subject can clearly be seen.

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Rural area in the last century in contact and conflict with modern life in the world. Psychological drama's

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Over 50 short stories and a detective. Awarded Grote Culturele Prijs van Drenthe 2014. Great Cultural Prize of province of Drenthe (NL) for all his writing....

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How does a less developed area affect inhabitants and specially; how do (clever) people find a pleasant way of life in a cultural hostile environment. The chosen death of my mother (by voluntary starvation). Prize winning novel....

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Choose your own road to freedom. Wet tears when you cry.

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Tenths of longer and shorter stories in Drents dialect. All my stories of about 30 years writing. (Together with part 4 of this collective work)

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Bizarre and by times deregulating stories in a rural setting. Psychological development of characters. Absurd as life can be, sometimes some violence. For a learned reader references to religion, politics and literature of great writers....

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All people as strangers in a paradise that they don't recognize.

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Over a hundred short stories in Dutch. Title comes from a story: Enter, don't knock at the door.

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Overview of a writers life. Biographical content.

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What looks life like in the rural area of Drenthe (NL) where modern life came late in the last century. How did parents, teachers, politics, religion influence the coming of age in a culturally poor environment....

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Great reconciliation in several novels, essays

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A disaffected German comes of age and sets out on a lifelong journey to discover himself through sex, drugs and, ultimately, spirituality in Mitze’s novel. Walter Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn drinking money. Over the years, restless Walter finds himself loving numerous women. He gets drafted into the German military and relinquishes his service by claiming pacifism. Later, he discovers marijuana and finally settles with a beautiful girl, Hilde. But a stable relationship isn’t enough to stave off Walter’s mounting depression and intense desire to find meaning. When he and a friend visit the United States in the late 1960s, he falls in love with an unlikely place—Oklahoma City—where he encounters psychedelic drugs. He moves there with Hilde to open a restaurant, before returning to Frankfurt, addicted to psychedelics. One summer, while living with Hilde at his parents’ home i...

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Walter Herzog was born in a small town near Marburg, in the state of Hessen, about fifty miles north of Frankfurt. Looking back at his life, one can only say that it was and is like a dream—a dream filled with the spectrum of all colors imaginable; a life full of love, drama, and fear, with inner richness but disenfranchised. It was a life and existence of courage on the verge of desperation, as if madness tried to find guidance through him. He experienced deep depression, loneliness, and indescribably awesome bliss. From when he was born in the forties of the last century until the year 2000 may not seem like a long time, but to remember standing at the crossroads of a small town in the middle of Western Germany when John F. Kennedy was assassinated seems like the brink of eternity. Walter had been locked up; had survived stabbing; was spit on, yelled at, and cursed; and had stuff thrown at him. One Sunday morning, however, he was fortunate enough to ask a true question at the proper moment. *** Tree leaves had already fallen to the ground after turning red and yellow. It was a melancholy season in Germany, with a certain smell...

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C O N T E N T S Acknowledgment Eternal Hula Directory of Individuals Pink Lotus Lisa Herzog and "Father" First Changes Challenges Life at Home First Love Madeleine Summer Holidays Military Important Decision Andreas, Ombudsman Hilde and Frankfurt Following Sardinia USA No. 1 More Changes Darkness USA Encore Homecoming A New Chapter Arrangements The East Greece Turkey Mehmed Persia Afghanistan India Going North Roof of The World Journey through the interior of India Dravida Approaching Territory Transition Alternative Course New Life Perception Internal Affairs The Becoming of an Author Cyclic Devastation The Road to Dead End Resurrection Margaretha Part Two Life Goes On Homeland Far East and back The Beloved Repeat Red Zone Chandra Getting Acquainted Contemplation Mêlée Small, Red Family Celebrations Chicago Another Community in Hamburg Poona Life without Center Curtain Call Edmonton, Alberta...

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A literary novel that touches on drug addiction, domestic violence and coming of age.

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Los Angeles 2017 Letter to My Parents Contest Award recipients and letters.

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Chicago 2017 Letter to My Parents Contest announcement, award recipients, and letters.

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Letters from the finalist of the 2017 Letter to My Parents Contest in Hawaii.

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2018 Letter to My Parents Contest in Hawaii flier.

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Letter announcement for the 2016 Letter to My Parents Contest in Hawaii.

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An exploration of the vital importance of imagination and experience, as exemplified in the works of William Blake and Jacob Boehme. This paper is based on a lecture given at the Temenos Academy London, and published in the Temenos Academy Review 20 (2017)....

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Boehme wrote of his works that ‘a Man’s Reason, without the light of God, cannot come into the Ground [of them], it is impossible, let his wit be ever so high and subtle, it apprehends but as it were the Shadow of it in a Glass’.17 As Blake wrote in Jerusalem, when ‘the Reasoning Power in Man’ is ‘separated/From Imagination,’ it encloses ‘itself as in steel, in a Ratio/Of the Things of Memory’....

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This paper (23 pages) is based on a lecture given at the Temenos Academy London, and published in the Temenos Academy Review 20 (2017).

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“EDITORIAL DE FUNDACIÓN Ficticia, según diccionarios y enciclopedias, es un ave que, en ciertas regiones de México, emite un canto parecido a la eternidad. Son muchos los aventureros y naturalistas, desde Quetzalcóatl hasta Alexander von Humboldt, que han intentado atraparla, pues la leyenda señala que de lograr enjaular su música, el captor logra su propia inmortalidad. Casi extinta a principios del siglo XX por un fenómeno no del todo explicado, todavía en regiones apartadas, en la selva lacandona, en la sierra tarahumara o en la zona del silencio, hay indígenas que dicen haber soñado con tan melodiosa voz, y al despertar son capaces de contar las más extrañas y fabulosas historias. Son muchos los anecdotistas que le dan a la rara avis la cualidad de dios, pues entre los aztecas, invocar su plumaje, cegador de tan espléndido, era punto de partida para la conversación alrededor del fuego. Por lo que su imagen fue tanto o más importante que las deidades de la agricultura, de la fertilidad o de la guerra, ya que, suponían, era igualmente valioso comer, reproducirse o ir a la batalla, como el tener de qué hablar. De esta manera, e...

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“EDITORIAL DE FUNDACIÓN Ficticia, según diccionarios y enciclopedias, es un ave que, en ciertas regiones de México, emite un canto parecido a la eternidad. Son muchos los aventureros y naturalistas, desde Quetzalcóatl hasta Alexander von Humboldt, que han intentado atraparla, pues la leyenda señala que de lograr enjaular su música, el captor logra su propia inmortalidad. Casi extinta a principios del siglo XX por un fenómeno no del todo explicado, todavía en regiones apartadas, en la selva lacandona, en la sierra tarahumara o en la zona del silencio, hay indígenas que dicen haber soñado con tan melodiosa voz, y al despertar son capaces de contar las más extrañas y fabulosas historias. Son muchos los anecdotistas que le dan a la rara avis la cualidad de dios, pues entre los aztecas, invocar su plumaje, cegador de tan espléndido, era punto de partida para la conversación alrededor del fuego. Por lo que su imagen fue tanto o más importante que las deidades de la agricultura, de la fertilidad o de la guerra, ya que, suponían, era igualmente valioso comer, reproducirse o ir a la batalla, como el tener de qué hablar. De esta manera, e...

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Post-Gaddis, close third-person tragicomedy; linear storytelling, mise-en-scene not overexpansive.

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Having lost her mother, and virtually rendered `orphan`, in the absence of `father`, a little girl Named Bhoomika, by dint of sheer circumstances, happens to reach a virgin teacher. Here, the `blessed opportunity for education` awaits her, as she is inspired and guided by this benevolent lady towards higher education. Once, she was offered a part-time job of `a reader for a blind class-fellow` of hers at Khadi Degree College, Guhahati: and she gladly accepted it. Of course, some nascent opportunities came to her, even in Delhi, when she was staying in a Working Women’s Hostel, while doing some odd jobs to support self, economically. But the travails of life also came her way; and she coped up with every sort of situation, by way of `fine-tuning` the responses from her brain and heart, every time, with an objective to attaining a quality decision from within. Having once been requested by very senior colleague to stay with one spinster Professor, during her illness, she served the lady so dutifully that the Professor persistently requested her to live with her till the young girl is married off. Having attained some extraordinary ...

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"In fact, I had never spoken to her even a single word, though she continued to send me signals for initiating a dialogue with her. I had to go to fetch my daily quota of water from the water-tap, provided at the back of her tenement, for all the four segments, in the vicinity. Almost every time, we had to place our buckets or utensils, in a queue, while waiting for our turn. Being shy of passing through the front lane, while approaching the water-tap, I preferred to walk along the back of the segment, in our front. God knows, how she could spot me from such a long distance that I had come out of my room, with buckets in my hands. Quite often, I marked her busy in looking towards me with furtive glances, while waiting for her turn, as she would deliberately waste her time, simply to ignore the fact of my arrival there and would thus make room for me to place my buckets before hers.” .......... It pains him to recall his last meeting with that `unfortunate girl`, who was destined to spend a spinster's life and breathe her last, while resting her head at Bihari's knee, who kept caressing her forehead, in the presence of her trusted ...

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The Analytical Sketches of the biography, titled `Jhalla` (A Silly Lad) is an exposition of the various stages, leaving behind sweet and sometimes sour reminiscences on the mind of the author. This treatise aims to provide the glimpses of the life’s journey already traversed by him for over 8 decades. Here, in this book, he jumps from one stage to another, to provide the reader of his past and the present day life. The scheme of the book is based on segments and their contents. These divisions are enumerated as under: Segment one Since birth till the demise of my mother; Segment Two from the age of 11 to the time of my marriage; Segment Three; from our marriage to the time of our first issue’s marriage; Segment Four Almost to the time we became grandparents; Segment Five From the time I joined legal fraternity as an Advocate and Miscellaneous. However, the reader would be enlightened with the details of the story of the author’s life, in the chronological order on the various topics. (i) Memoirs of Jhalla (A Silly Lad) (ii) Jhalla lands into an entirely new world; (iii) Almost decade-long-struggle for subsistence, in the off...

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ആരും തൊടാത്ത, നമുക്കിടയില നിസ്സാരമെന്നു തോന്നിക്കുന്ന ശൂന്യസ്ഥലങ്ങളെ സ്പര്ശിടച്ചുകൊണ്ടാണ് ഈ എഴുത്തുകാരന്റെ ഓരോ കഥകളും കടന്നുപോകുന്നത്. അങ്ങേയറ്റം ചെറുതും ലോലവുമായ വിഷയങ്ങള്‍ അത്രയുംതന്നെ ലളിതമായ ഭാഷയില്‍ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുക എന്നത് ആധുനികതയുടെ കാലത്ത് തികച്ചും അപൂർവമായിരിക്കുന്നു...

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൧൨. മല യാളത്തില ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ എഴുത്ത്/സിനിമാ സൃഷ്ടികളെപ്പറ്റി ? ഏത് തരത്തലുള്ള സൃഷ്ടികളാണ് വേണ്ടത് എന്നത് കാലഘട്ടം ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്ന ഒന്നാണ്. അത്തരത്തിലുള്ള സൃഷ്ടികൾ ഉണ്ടാകുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. ...

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:::കഥകൾ നെമോയുടെ മുഖക്കണ്ണാടി............15 പച്ചനിറമുള്ള കഥ.....................43 പ്രസന്ന..................................77 കുഞ്ഞാരി..............................107 ചടയപുരാണം ........................135 ഒലിവർ വാർവിക്..................161 :::കുറിപ്പുകൾ ജലസ സ്രോതസ് എന്ന റാഡിക്കൽ ഇമേജറി.....207 എഴുത്തുകാരനുമായി അഭിമുഖം......220...

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Satan has escaped from hell and the city of Zenith and the state of Winnemac are in grave danger. George Babbitt and an unlikely group of heroes must rise up against the dark lord of evil to not only save the future of humanity, but the sould of Babbitt himself. Working from recently discovered notes supposedly from the pen of Sinclair Lewis, 12 year old Timmy Spabe has crafted a new adventure that surpasses the original in every way....

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“What are you talking about?” Babbitt gasped as he and the others stared in horror at Cilantro. as he sat down heavily on the couch.  “In the year 1930, the state of Winnemac and all cities and people within cease to exist and all memories of this place will be wiped from both history and the minds of those who live in my era.” “Pardon my use of obscenity,” Howard said breathlessly. “But what the heck?” Cilantro frowned.  “The only things that are known of Winnemac and it's people's are found in the writings of Sinclair Lewis that the people of my time see as works of fiction.” “From what year do you come?” asked Ted warily.  “I come from the 21st century.”...

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Marcus is showing Andrea Simpson, the PhD psychologist who counsels hard-core offenders at the women's reformatory, how to construct whirligigs. Andrea, for her part, is teaching the woodworker a thing or two about the human condition....

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As these proud and once-prosperous United States of America continue in tragic decline, Mark Evanston leaps back into action in the third and final installment of the Bald Justice series, Bare Liberty. Working with his colleagues at the Patriot Corps, Mark continues on with his Patriot Quest to eliminate government tyranny, once and for all. Mark routs out evil where it lurks most prevalently, within our monetary system which was cleverly separated from the gold and silver coin which is otherwise required by our U.S. Constitution. By understanding precisely how our government is able to ignore the Constitution with impunity, Mark soon devises his proposed cure, his Once and For All Amendment. Bare Liberty provides the solid rationale for proposing and ratifying a new constitutional amendment in story form, to close the constitutional loophole which has always allowed government to act in all cases whatsoever, to act everywhere except where they are expressly prohibited from acting. By Building Awareness of Republican Knowledge, the Patriot Corps is able to help Restore Our American Republic. By individually learning to B.A.R.K...

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“I have to admit, my first killing shocked me,” Terry admitted. “Not because it was so hard, but actually because it was so easy and even more so because it was thrilling. Total dominion over someone else is very intoxicating, so much better than alcohol, drugs, or even sex. Actually, it was even better killing someone who had willingly just given me great sex only hours earlier, who now welcomed me back, only for me to then kill her.” “Your first killing?” Mark was able to get out, before figuring out that Terry must have also killed Stan Bogelman and Mike Holladay. “I can see you now realize that I also killed Stan and Mike, as well as your sex double Art Black down in California, after your investigators began closing in on him,” Terry offered. “And now I see you finally understand that I’m telling you all this so I can get a bigger thrill out of killing you next.” Mark had no time to try and process that information, but simply react, more aggressively than he had ever acted in his lifetime. Mark sprinted the few yards toward Terry with all the speed and determination he could possible muster, but Terry was easily able t...