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Traces of Fire is J. Hayes Hurley's third hexalogy There are six novels in Traces of Fire. Diamond House: an artist living in the Caribbean pushes the envelope of Gestalt perception. Rimbaud Redux: a lyrical poet keeps on working past his teenage years. The Noble Melancholy of the Blind Poet: individualism goes astray at a beautiful lakeside. The Speed of Light/The Taste of Bread: a defrocked priest tries to make sense of his place in space....

In novel one, Asher and Oliver, an aged novelist goes on a spontaneous road trip in search of new material. In novel two, Cezar and the Sixers, a cosmologist tries to find a connection between the vastness of space and the life of his mentally handicapped brother. In novel three, Claude and Eddie, two young men walk up Broadway while exploring the scope of narrative and history. In novel four, Ella and Erwin, Schrodinger's cat lives to tell th...

Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled "A Hurley Hexalogy." Included are "The Last Existentialist, " in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award, "Auteur, " the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director, "Villas and Horizons, " where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius, "Under the Greywacke Arch, " wherein the search for the meaning of aes...

The Priests of Time contains ten short novels. The first five are located in Manhattan, and include settings in Washington Square, the Chelsea Hotel, Times Square during the 1960's, the East Village, and Battery Park. The second five are located "Elsewhere." The novels are to do with artists, poets, actors, novelists, and philosophers. Altogether, they show both the creative power and the intellectual prowess of the author.

Incident at the Medallion Club by J. Hayes Hurley

TWO NOVELS ARE SET IN TURTLE BAY, an upscale neighborhood in midtown Manhattan east. In The Historian at Eventide, an eighty-five year old historian races to find the meaning (if any) of global history before he dies. During his two-year struggle, his quest becomes quixotic, and the various characters he deals with are either trying to save him or trying to steal all his money. In the end his quest proves futile and he gets swept up in the sam...

The Gilgamesh Epic is the oldest known piece of writing. Its themes are Friendship versus Love, and the Quest for Immortality. In "The Boxer and the Deep, " the entire tale is updated to fit into a Manhattan setting, and the principles are now heavyweight boxers. Action centers around the Overthrow Boxing Club on Bleecker Street.

In Third Trilogy: ÒCorvus at RestÓ follows the historical musings of a one hundred year old Roman dictator. ÒThou Saw the FieldsÓ chronicles the fate of three young Harvard grads leading ex-pat lives in Barcelona. And ÒThe Chinese Gentleman DreamÓ uncovers a delightful Heideggarian solution for a billionaireÕs social anhedonia.

Little Albert Gachot had only one modest ambition in life. That was to own his own men's accessories store. Finally settling in Marseille, France, his only chance to fulfill his dream is to borrow money from "The Little Duck, " the local underworld chief. The two men become improbable friends until circumstances draw our poor bow tie man into a fateful trap.J. Hayes Hurley is the author of twenty-nine novels, including Those Brownsville Blues,...

In Fourth Trilogy, "Witness to the Clearing" follows the fate of an ex-seminarian who is entrapped in a James L. Cain noir murder plot. "A Comedy Closing off Broadway" looks into the fate of a young fiction writer on the Upper West side of Manhattan in the 1960's. And "The Hector Index" pits a budding philosophical poet against the analytic philosophical community.

An existentialist philosopher, Jack Ireland, is invited to Genoa, Italy, to search for a packet of missing letters supposedly left in a grand palazzo by Nietzsche in the 19th Century. He ends up living in the palazzo as tutor to a cognitive challenged aristocratic boy. What could be the value of philosophy for this child? What is it touches all human souls? J. Hayes Hurley is novelist, a philosopher, and a philosophical novelist. He is the aut...

From rural New Hampshire and on to New York, Paris, and London, The Clarksons is a panoramic tale of a multi-generational family of novelists and publishers, who play out sometimes loving, sometimes parasitic relationships with one another. J. Hayes Hurley is a novelist and a philosopher. He is the author of sixteen novels including "Diary of the Attending Rays" and "Those Brownsville Blues." He holds a Ph.D in philosophy from Yale University.

Motion and Rest, now in its second edition, is a Gnostic Western. Robert Glin, a paperback writer of western genre pulp, yearns to write an authentic novel about the new American west. One day he meets an old drifter, Thomas Sligo, who claims to be a Messenger god fallen to earth and who, in fact, can perform minor miracles. They form a caravan and roam the new American west while on their way to salvation. J. Hayes Hurley is the author of nin...

Nikki and Caroline are two beautiful city nymphs working in present day Berlin, though their memories sometimes carry back to ancient Greece. Through them four Berlin stories interlock. The first is called The Red Princess and concerns the sometimes silly, sometimes fateful doings of members of the now deposed German nobility. The second, Willing Peter, takes up the issue of will in a city notorious for its failed triumphs. The third story, Pa...

A young novelist and a newly minted philosopher take off on a road trip across America in a refurbished VW van. Along the way they meet a host of characters, discuss theories of perception and consciousness, read the novelist's first novel, a Baudelairean feast, and recount the struggles of the philosopher when a student in a mythical graduate school.

Second Trilogy contains three short novels including: "The Fence", a tightly-woven existentialist fable, "Oblivion", a caustic look at the fate of certain houses, families, and literary efforts, and "Just Cursing", the revised second edition of an earlier Hurley novel.

A successful abstract painter now living in an artists' colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life's work. During the talks, there emerges a joyful, jazzlike riff recalling the painter's fifty-year friendship with another abstract artist. The New York City art scene is featured along with tales of heartache and triumph.

Joe, a recent graduate from photography school, moves to Amsterdam to seek fame and fortune. Along the way he meets two beautiful Dutch girls, Hennie, a poet, and Danique, a painter. The trio collaborate on sophisticated installations that send Joe on his way to greatness. Joe ends his collaboration with Hennie by marrying her. He continues to use Danique and others while making his way to the top. This novel gives readers an inside look at wh...

Seven members of a film crew show up one at a time at Billy's Bar, the famous watering hole at the American Club of Hong Kong. There they talk to the bartender, Ho, who has the power to elicit their deepest secrets and desires. Questions like what is art cinema, how does it work, and who is in charge are discussed, and before long cimema is touted not only as the dominant art form, it tries to enfold existence itself into its frames, bringing ...

A mysterious donor has given a gift to a New York publishing house to pursue the question "Is there progress in philosophy?" A senior editor, Dan Snyder, forms a separate imprint called the Three Rs' Press, named after the three philosophers Charles Ralston, Michael Radigan, and Eugene Robinson, who will work on this imprint. What follows is both highly comic and philosophically revealing.