The Condition
A violent young nihilist is involuntarily committed to a fundamentalist rehabilitation facility beyond legal oversight. Authority fractures into competing systems of belief and punishment, building toward a drug run to the Texas border where multiple accounts of the same events expose radically incompatible realities.
Milligan and the Preacher
John Milligan is a cynical, hard-drinking would-be novelist. Calder Lee Kane is a charismatic Texas-born holy man whose non-philosophy of "That-What-Is" has drawn a devoted following and a television audience in the millions. Milligan has decided to write a book about him. It doesn't go according to plan. Does it ever?
The Novel: A Work in Prose
by John R. Milligan
Edited by Stephen R. Brown
A found manuscript by a vanished philosopher-novelist, written in numbered sections echoing Wittgenstein. Characters appear as variables, events as propositions — yet beneath the formal scaffolding lies an intimate human crisis: a man transmuting betrayal into philosophy, heartbreak into literary theory. Formally audacious, intellectually exacting, and unexpectedly intimate.