The Prospector’s Journal By: Tim Hunt The Prospector’s Journal is a story about a young, disabled war veteran down on his luck and decides to spend his time prospecting. When he explores an old, abandon mineshaft, he finds the remains of an old prospector who has been dead for over 150 years. Next to the bones is a journal written back in the 1860s. The journal, written in the man’s own hand, tells of this old man’s discoveries. He had once recovered the entire fortune of Montezuma’s Treasure. Filled with excitement, and looking for something to do with his time, the modern-day veteran follows the dead man’s clues from the journal in an effort to discover if the treasure remains hidden.
Now a classic, Kerouac’s Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac’s creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory. This edition includes a new preface by the author, which takes a discerning look at the implications of the 2007 publication of the original typewriter scroll version of On the Road for the understanding of Kerouac and his novel. Although some critics see the scroll version of the novel as embodying Kerouac’s true artistic vision and the 1957 Viking edition as a commercialized compromise of that vision, Hunt argues that the two versions should not be viewed as antithetical but rather as discrete perspectives of a writer deeply immersed in writing as both performance and evolving process. Hunt moves beyond the mythos surrounding the “spontaneous creation” of On the Road, which upholds Kerouac’s reputation as a cultural icon, to look more closely at an innovative writer who wanted to bridge the gap between the luscious, talk-filled world of real life and the sterilized version of that world circumscribed by overly intellectualized, literary texts, through the use of written language driven by effusive passion rather than sober reflection. With close, erudite readings of Kerouac’s major and minor works, from On the Road to Visions of Cody,Hunt draws on Kerouac’s letters, novels, poetry, and experimental drafts to position Kerouac in both historical and literary contexts, emphasizing the influence of writers such as Emerson, Melville, Wolfe, and Hemingway on his provocative work.
Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouac’s transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality. From these perspectives, Tim Hunt crafts a new critical approach to Beat poetics and textual theory, marking an important contribution to the current revival of Kerouac and Beat studies underway at universities in the U.S. and abroad, as reflected by a growing number of conferences, courses, and a renewal in scholarship.
From our largely urban and suburban reality, it is easy to laugh at the backwardness of those who do not ride a train to work clutching a laptop and latte: Every "us" needs a "them." In the poems of Tim Hunt's THE TAO OF TWANG, "them" talks back, both to return the laughter and to search for things we might need and even want, whether we imagine ourselves either "us" or "them." Keith Abbott says: "With care and honesty Tim Hunt's THE TAO OF TWANG covers a lot of territory, from raw youth to rolling total old. Bakersfield to Nashville; all the E string pit stops in between and Hunt even supplies some imaginary heavens of those perfect gigs." And Sharon Doubiago adds: "Indirectly, delightfully, Tim Hunt's poems put the Holy Writ of academia's canon under the same lens as it puts the culture of his roots.... Hilarious, thought-provoking, deeply philosophical, sometimes almost transhuman, to use Jeffers word, in the mix of subject and form from two different/almost at-war cultures, and with the help of his fantastic ear, you will know THE TAO OF TWANG. You will know why redneck Western poets write the way we do. And you will newly ponder, again, our aesthetic assumptions.
The first in the “Love Letters Written in the Sands of Time” series, “Heart of Sapphire” is a touching love story spanning more than three decades. Tim and Olivia fall in love as kids but their paths are separated and they move through their lives always feeling the emptiness left inside. Tim begins writing letters to Olivia, whom he calls Sapphire, which are never sent, to tell her of his life without her. Reunited after more than twenty five years, their love starts anew. Tim continues to write letters to his Sapphire, telling her of his thoughts and feelings in their beautiful new life together. In the end it is Sapphire's letter to Tim that will touch his soul and warm your heart. A touching love story that reminds us to never give up on true love.
This is decidely the best of the American books on Kerouac--smart, insightful, situating Kerouac firmly in the broader American literary tradition while remaining wonderfully alert to the themes and formal strategies that mark Kerouac's own highly innovative contribution to that tradition."--Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty
True Story of Crazy Tim Conklin and Life of Tow Mater Jr. By: Crazy Tim Conklin Crazy Tim Conklin is a man with a sad life, but he sure does love to hunt and fish and has always worked hard. He started drinking in his early thirties and got the nickname of Crazy Tim. At the time, he also “dirty danced” to earn extra cash, and the ladies were very nice. But then he found Tow Mater Jr. and had to help him out. They became great friends, and Crazy Tim became a stepdad to him. Together, they are out to find Tow’s dad, Tow Mater Sr.
There was this feeling, a foreboding. It only lasted a moment, then everything changed. I stood there overlooking the town I grew up in, Rochelle, Kansas. So much had happened since I last looked down on this little hamlet. I listened and smiled as I heard the town hall clock strike twelve. My name is Christopher Blake. My Father and his brother started The Thriller Theater here in the town, many, many years ago. The Blake brothers were known for putting on quite a show. People would come from all over to watch an old black and white horror flick. When my father, David Blake was killed, my mother moved us as far away as she could get. Uncle Dean made sure that mom got dad's cut from the theater so we always had enough but I always hated that building. It kept dad away from home. It was always creepy and everyone said it was haunted. After all, the house they tore down to build it was haunted. Lots of murder in there. I think the biggest reason was that my father died there. And then there was that thing in the back of the building.... I'm getting ahead of myself, let me tell you my story of my return to The Thriller Theater.
The pages of this book have captured, distilled, and illuminated the wonders of the wild lands and the whitetails that haunt them, the other creatures that render the swamps magical and intriguing, and the quiet thump of a bow and hiss of an arrow. Midnight black raccoons, ghost-like piebalds, silent bobcats, antlered monarchs, charging hogs, moonlight adventures all add to the spice and excitement. Any aficionado of nature or whitetail deer, any sportsman or hunter, any lover of archery will find Bows, Swamps, Whitetails both fascinating and delightful. It is entertaining and yet full of information that will enable the reader to be a better hunter or woodsman.
The interactive puzzle book is reinvented with The Great Global Treasure Hunt, which challenges readers to take a virtual adventure right around the world in search of fabulous hidden treasure, for a whopping prize of 50,000 Euros.
When Kathy agreed to read Tim's latest book as he was writing his tale of piracy and royalty, she never could have imagined the passionate story that would open up to her. Kathy read the story of Lord Roanoke Westwind, a pirate. His world of pillage and plunder was turned upside down when fate took his ship broadside that of Princess Isabelle Millicent Heatherby. They had been friends until Lord Westwind's disappearance more than twenty years earlier. A spark lit in the cold heart of the dreaded pirate, known to the world as “The Dragon”. Kathy delighted in the story of the Pirate and the Princess. As she read, she noticed the unmistakable resemblances between the princess, Belle, and herself. She was excited that Tim was using her likeness as the heroine in the book, but then she noticed something else. She could see that Roanoke was in fact Tim. Kathy questioned Tim about it. Tim replied, “All my life I have been just Tim. At any other place or time, I am just Tim. So when I write, I am always the hero. I have never been anyone's hero, anyone's knight in shining armor, anyone's handsome prince, so I write myself in my fairytales.” The couple fall in love and write their own love story in the pages of passion. The two stories unfold in exciting similarities up to the royal wedding and the merging of two hearts, two lives and two stories. Love comes forth in it's own way, it's own time and just as it was meant to be, written in the sands of time.
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