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On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visits Dublin and muses on death, sex, love, Irish immigrant history, and his days as a student in Europe.

PARTY OF PICTURES is a reel, both the dance and the loop, and I suppose the stagger, highly diverting."GEORGE O'BRIEN - The Village of Longing, Dancehall Days "Party of Pictures is a splendid invitation to an annual fete, one honoring a madcap saint, a party both ordained and yet unexpected. McGonigle excels at capturing memorable dates and places - and who can resist a St. Patrick's Day bacchanal, especially one hilarious and reflective, that...

Like Samuel Beckett, McGonigle observes what might be full is empty and what appears to be empty may, in fact, be full. In this collage of verbal snapshots (where remembering becomes forgetting and the attempt to forget becomes obsessive frustration), we wander through the byways of Bulgaria and America during the forty days via the Orthodox aerial toll booths until the soul is judged. Absurdity becomes sanity and vice versa.

THE BULGARIAN PSYCHIATRIST arrived with a suitcase filled with ties, and knowing how to wear a dead man's clothes, and how to initiate a son into the art of beating a prisoner to death and ... all of which did not prepare him for a life of listening in the USA.

A travel book for those of us who never travel, who never want to travel.

Like James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas McGonigle's award-winning novel St. Patrick's Day takes place on a single day, combining a stream-of-consciousness narrative with masterful old-fashioned storytelling, which samples the literary histories of both Ireland and America and the worlds they influence.

Nikola Petkov, head of the Agrarian Party and the last significant opposition leader to defy the Communist takeover of Bulgaria, was hanged in 1947 after a show trial in Sofia. In The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov, Thomas McGonigle imagines the doomed man's thoughts as Petkov is put to death.Petkov recalls a life of privilege interrupted by prophetic acts of violence. His father, who built the prison where Petkov would die, was assassinated on the...

Thomas McGonigle and James Quigley present us with a history of Christian belief and institutions from the Reformation to Vatican II and beyond.

An overview of Christian beliefs and practices across the centuries with an emphasis on tradition and the evolution of belief.