Upper West Side Philosophers - Yoga for the Mind

04/02/2024

Provocative and revelatory! Check out this "Conversation about Germany" with Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin.

https://www.literaturhaus-berlin.de/programm/ulrike-draesner-michael-eskin-gespraech-ueber-deutschland

01/26/2024

A timely, revelatory, and absolutely necessary conversation in these trying and unsettled times. Globally available now! We are honored to welcome Ulrike Draesner, one of Germany's foremost authors, to the UWSP family.

01/25/2024

Congratulations to Timothy Balding on another literary coup!

Spice up your January with "The Spectator," a contemporary social novel, laced with its author’s signature wit and dark humor. This mad caper of a novel examines the poisoning of a nation’s psyche by tabloid media and the existential torments of one man struggling to escape his fate as both one of its villains and its victims.

06/09/2023

"Reality is stranger than fiction" or should we rather say that fiction comes closer to the truth than reality. Timothy Balding's brilliant satirical novel certainly encapsulates the absurdity of the political situation in the US better than our news feeds – and it is so much more fun to read!

"Not since Vonnegut has the absurd been so beautifully crafted into a clever, thoroughly entertaining adventure! Cool. Fun. Painfully relevant!" (Amazon Review)
The fun starts here:

The United States and Bangistan, a former Soviet satellite dictatorship, are edging towards nuclear conflict. At any moment, their war of words, insults and threats may escalate into an exchange of missiles and an apocalypse. In the White House, President Ronald Rump hesitates between negotiating...