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•FREE Spoken Word Music Videos of
book readings on youtube . .
•FREE
Poetry
books "Diamond Head" . .
• "Knight of a 1000 eyes"
finishes the "Little House on the
Prairie" trilogy.
• Read Sample
Chapters
of all books published by
Hitmotel.
• "Thoughts on
Vacation" is the last novel in
the ongoing roman fleuve
"My Years of Apprenticeship at
Love" sextet.
• Hear Michael Lyons and
others performing a radio play
version of Loafers of the
Kandinsky Sound
Museum.
• Discover
Dolores
Park the third novel of the
"My Years of Apprenticeship at
Love" sextet.
"Thoughts on
Vacation":
"... Lyons' picaresque
novel creates a pare of
characters that have not been
seen since Don Quixote and Sancho
Panza here tilting at windmills
of the nano world or Beuvard and
Pecuchet, learning the new
molecular biology of our time..."
Conde-Nast Travel and Leisure
Magazine
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Portrait of the Writer as a Jungian
After
you get into your 30s or 40s you start wanting some answers about what
does it all mean. I have found the analytic or archetypal psychology of
Jung to be transformative in its methods. To come to this knowledge
about the human psyche is one of the great pleasures of life, not to be
missed when going through here.
The pathway to self-knowledge is long and arduous and full of insight.
To become awakened you have to fight a spell with a spell.
Seeing Through the Spell of Transference
takes place during the computer revolution of the 80s and early 90s. It
shows the shift in literacy from associational to more sequential. From
imperative to relational, which is reflected in the world of
programming languages with the coming of the webs of networks as the
new mandala and artificial intelligence.
The novel finds the
writer Walker living Berkeley at the beginning of word processing. We
see him in a love story with a lovely older woman during this time when
AIDES was just beginning to scare the world. In a Silicon Valley
setting, of Bay Area nerd macho he rises in the world through desk top
publishing and interactive interface design at a very creative time
when these types of work were just coming into the world. This
10th novel by Lyons, is Volume 4 of the "My Years of Apprenticeship at
Love" sextet. It is the sequel to Dolores Park and the 6th of that
series to be published by Hitmotel Press. The Greatest Story of the 20th Century
The
biggest story of my generation is the understanding of the universe
that emerges with modern science. Especially in the late 20th century,
after relativity, and the diffusion of group theory into disciplines of
physics and anthropology. If, as Spangler pointed out, calculus was a
cultural cue for the understanding of romanticism, what overarching new
math can be seen as the secret and subtle fundamental harmonic of our
post-modern era.
The Indigenous Tribesmen of Neverland explores
that question. Which is not to say it is an abstract book. Old familiar
and new characters are there to be the narrative probe into the
zeitgeist.
The novel celebrates the joys of Austin slacker
living, through the love story linking the lives of the main characters
Walker and the high school girl Laura. In a Tortilla Flat setting,
surrounded by friends Weesa the punk lolita, and Wild Bill the post
apocalyptic uberboho Moondog character and others, the zeitgeist
emerges through its coming to reside in this group of people.
This 9th novel by Lyons, is Volume 2 of the "My Years of Apprenticeship
at Love" sextet. It is the 5th of that series to be published by
Hitmotel Press.
What is Sex?
After a million years of research we can
finally, definitively answer that
question: Sex is the Antigravity of
Metamorphosis.
This new book by Michael Lyons is a
comedy of manners in which a young
hitchhiker is picked up by and lives with
a cool and hot young mom in his home town
of Montreal, and Vermont as winter
approaches and after he has been away
growing up in Texas.
Many things about life, love, women, art,
the viability of romance in the context of
parenting and work he does learn. He comes
to understand the function in the title
which is also a cognitive metaphor
structuring the mindscape of the book.
This 8th novel by Lyons, is Volume 1 of
the "My Years of Apprenticeship at Love"
sextet. It is the 4th of that series to be
published by Hitmotel Press.
Get the PUNCTUAL ACTUAL WEEKLY
Centered around a warehouse theatre in
1976 Berkeley and an ephemeral literary
magazine called The Punctual Actual Weekly
the story combines cultural history,
biography and literary analysis in a
thought-provoking memoir about the
artist's struggle. It depicts the
expansion of the poet's mind under the
shaping influences of modern poetics in
the pursuit of transcendence. In
reprinting some of the pages of the
magazine the entire spectrum of writing
endeavors, including poetry, news writing,
play writing, narrative, solo theatre,
chanting based on an innovative sound
language is evidenced. As well as a poets
notebook in graphic novel format, and the
catalog of an artist's show. This story of
a Castaneda-like apprenticeship to the
many word-shamans of modern literature,
shows a mind fraught with personal
challenges holding a precarious balance
between acceptance and inundation and is
often hilarious.
"Thoughts on Vacation" A Must
Read
The Story: A father and son bringing each
other up. Vacation as a state of mind
whenever one accepts the invitation of the
child to return to the world before
received ideas. The sixth novel in the "My
Years of Apprenticeship at Love" sextet
allows us to experience the life of Walker
Underwood as he becomes charmed by his
child.
The chapters are loosely coupled and allow
for exploration. They amplify the same
theme through variations. That theme is
the wounded artist finding his way to
well-being through the imagination. Take a
vacation in your mind. A must read for
every parent, or those thinking about
it.
A Neither Here Nor There
Way
A lyrical, psychological, spiritual
handbook, "Knight of a 1000 eyes," in the
best of the tradition of commentary on the
I Ching, is a humorous and scientific
treatise on martial art! It is Taoism, the
I Ching, it is an enactment of the
enatiomorph, (the yin -yang symbol) at the
heart of Jung's Buddhist psychology. This
book takes it in the direction of fractal
mathematics and the topology of social
interactions. It explores the ideas of Tao
as Ecology, Tao as Gravity, Tao as the
Form of Fractals. Which it not to say that
it is all that terribly serious, the story
stars off with Walker Underwood, needing
to protect his marijuana patch from
rustlers on his farm out on the Texas
prairie teaches himself tai chi out of a
book. Walker grows in the Tao as his
learning progresses. He falls in love with
the Way as he sees it percolating and
diffusing in the land. Check
out samples from "Knight of a 1000
eyes" now. Read a Review.
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