Following the death of my literary agent, the elegant Mr. Jack Scovil of Scovil, Chichak and Galen, I have published titles under my own imprint.  My first such private effort was that of William Caxton & Sons, LLC, in Washington DC, and currently that of Editions Reina, under which I publish a magazine Old Masters International. (www.old-masters-international.com)

Written between 2007 and 2014 and published privately in 2017, The Last Will and Testament of Western Man is a critical book for critical times, its theme summarized within the title itself.  It is a novel-of-ideas, profound and humorous, philosophical and plain-spoken, the story of four wise, lost-cause romantics who are the kind of unforgettable characters that make a literary work timeless, often a cult classic.  There is nothing on the market like this work today. Last Will is flamboyant in scope, obsessive in detail and inspired by the traditions of Robert Musil, Julio Cortazar and Vladimir Nabokov in its love of language and its manic introspectiveness, with satire and wit to lighten the load and carry the story.  The narrative follows the lives of four brilliant eccentrics, friends from university days now in their late forties who are in dogged, hopeless pursuit of the Answer to the Question that has been both directed and disastrously misguided their lives:  Am I who I am Because-of or In-spite-of the circumstances of my life?  It is a story about the classic philosophical dilemma of Becoming versus Being, one that has plagued the history of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to neo-Platonists; from medieval Catholic-Scholastics to 20th century atheist-Existentialists.  Then again, it may be that there is no actual distinction between the two.  For, in the words of Antoine de Saint Exupery: "To live, it is to slowly be born".  To-Become is, in fact, the very act of Being, with no precise origin and no finite end--much like the mystery of the soul itself. 



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First printed by Book Arts, the beautiful "luxury" printer in Washington DC that does work for the White House and State Department, under the imprint William Caxton & Sons, I have since reissued the work under my imprint Editions Reina, which also publishes Old Masters International, an art magazine written and edited in Milan. I have been compelled to undertake private publishing owing to the rank bad taste of contemporary trends in publishing.  Thank you. 

Reflections on Splendor and Decline: A collection of fifteen beautiful essays of 3000 to 6000 words in length first published in The Imaginative Conservative, The Journal of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and Taki Magazine.   Among the titles are "Why Democracy Needs Aristocracy", "The Genius of Byzantium".  "Of Majesty and Anarchy", "The Late, Great American Anglo",  "Quiet Desperation and the English Way", "The Forest and the Faustian Soul", "The Lost Soul of Mr William Fife III" among others. 

The Habsburg Manifesto: How Modern Democracy Ruined My Life and How I Got Revenge. Described by late superagent Jack Scovil of New York as an "illuminating addition to the theater of ideas" Habsburg is a study of the meaning of Time, asking the question: If every past were once the future and every future will one day be the past, what does this say about the meaning of "the present" and how is that defined?  The narrative denouement of this work takes place over the course of a single night "when", as Mr Scovil wrote in a summary of the script, "two philosophically opposite brothers grapple over many of the timeless questions of value and meaning in life, and, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger and his lifestory, their rank cynicism is ingeniously transmitted to a profound and what has to be called moral truth. And this insight yields the genuinely startling recognition of what the true objective of government ought to be.  All of this is constructed with considerable wit and flair as well as compelling dramatic tension"