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Two Tommy Rawborn Tales
by John R. Milligan
This volume presents two complete novellas featuring Tommy Rawborn, Milligan's thinly-veiled alter ego navigating the Austin counterculture of the late 1980s and the working-class blues of small-town Texas. Dark, difficult, and deliberately uncomfortable, Two Tommy Rawborn Tales will repel as many readers as it attracts — which may be precisely the point.
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.
Will the Real John Milligan
Please Stand Up?
by Thomas Rawborn
Thomas Rawborn has been tasked with completing his dead mentor’s final novel. His investigation takes Rawborn from the foothills of Appalachia to the Smoky Mountains and back to Chicago. As he struggles to solve the problem of other minds, he encounters secrets he’d rather not know and people who don’t want him — or anyone else — to know those secrets. But as he begins exploring the depths of Milligan’s text, Tom Rawborn might just discover more than he bargained for — about Milligan and about himself.
Milligan's Last Stand
and Three Other Stories
by John R. Milligan
A philosophy professor writes an essay on the male gaze while embodying it. Across four novellas, John Milligan pursues students, survives scandals, smokes crack in a Chicago hotel room, and builds an administrative career on ethics he can't practice. Brilliant, funny, and constitutionally incapable of self-correction — until, possibly, he isn't.
Red Guitar Blue Guitar
by John R. Milligan
Zeb Wiseman Young lives for his guitar, his band, and his girl. Custer Drazic lives for his songs, his vices, and his best friend's girl. Esme Savage Earnhardt is wilder and deeper than either man can grasp. Set in the smoky bars and grinding factories of Factorytown, this is a novel of rock and roll, desire, and betrayal — told twice, from the inside out and the outside in, by two men who love the same woman and will never agree on what happened.