One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness, and disenchantment with unrepentant feeling. It is a book for the disenchanted, discombobulated and dissenting, for those who do not believe in wrong numbers, for those who render schematic diagrams on their ballots, for anyone stranded anywhere and for those who long to be stranded, for anyone who thinks that there are not just two sides to the question because questions do not have sides, for those who laugh and are lonely and still laugh because they can’t help it.
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley’s accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce’s work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten “uses” for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.
In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions.
The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyce’s composition methods. The book explores Joyce’s ambiguities around death, scatology, and the weather to propose new understandings of these phenomena as key ways into Joyce’s works. The book concludes with an examination of the tricky problem: what makes an interpretation untenable, and why do Joyce’s works inspire far-fetched and even crackpot readings?
Short Stories, Essays and Comments is a compilation of my thoughts over a period of twenty plus years and details some of the evolution of my thought processes. I've included a lot of the 'hot button' topics because people need to think about what we are doing and how we are doing it. Also included are some of my short stories and essays from my college days at Memphis State University.
Memoirs of a Country boy is the title of my autobiography that details a lot of things that have happened to me in the last 60+ years. I grew up in the hills of Southern Ohio where they piped the sunshine in and walked the moonshine out. Literally - my brother, Pemm, and I found my uncle's cooper kettle that he made moonshine in and took it to town and sold it. What we didn't get into - didn't need to be gotten into. This small book tells the high points of my naval career of twenty years and a lot of the things that have happened since I retired in 1990. Believe me when I say I've worked harder after retiring than before. I hope you find a quiet place and have fun reading.
A "Who Done It?" murder mystery with a twist in the end, this story line was thought up by David Paffrath who needed someone to write it for him. I thought the concept was sound and had merit - so we collaborated to make a really good, kick-ass story about a kid who grows up getting abused by his mother's suitors and then has to solve some really tough crimes of his own when he reaches manhood.
Thunder Breaks in on Silence is one of those books that you like to read by the fire on a cold winter's night - or on an airplane when you're trying to tune out everything that is going on around you. This book has a lot of the poetry and prose that I've written over twenty plus years and details a little about my life growing up in the hills of Southern Ohio.
The authors assess the costs associated with realistic threats to domestic, nonmilitary uses of the Global Positioning System (GPS), and consider possible additions to the positioning, navigation, and timing ecosystem in light of those costs.
Bob Adams is a quiet man living a quiet life working in his wood shop after hours until an old Army buddy shows up and wants to mooch off his family. Bob eventually throws him out but then finds that Gary has plans of vengeance and Bob suddenly finds himself neck deep in trouble. Bob's farm has been used to dump toxic waste and bodies. Bob goes to prison and his family have to think of some way to clear his name and get him released before it is too late.
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