In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions.

Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley’s accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce’s work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten “uses” for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyce’s composition methods. The book explores Joyce’s ambiguities around death, scatology, and the weather to propose new understandings of these phenomena as key ways into Joyce’s works. The book concludes with an examination of the tricky problem: what makes an interpretation untenable, and why do Joyce’s works inspire far-fetched and even crackpot readings?

Fictional languages are central to numerous creative works. This book examines such languages in a wide range of literature, films, and television shows. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on particular works. Many of these works are widely taught, such as All's Well That Ends Well, Gulliver's Travels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Utopia, while others are popular books, films, and television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cat's Cradle, The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. Thus the encyclopedia helps students understand texts central to the curriculum and popular culture. Each entry discusses the role of imaginary languages in a particular work. Entries range from antiquity to the present and close with suggestions for further reading. The encyclopedia ends with a selected bibliography and includes various helpful finding aids.

A "Who Done It?" murder mystery with a twist in the end, this story line was thought up by David Paffrath who needed someone to write it for him. I thought the concept was sound and had merit - so we collaborated to make a really good, kick-ass story about a kid who grows up getting abused by his mother's suitors and then has to solve some really tough crimes of his own when he reaches manhood.

A book of forty short stories by Tim Conley.

DBP Book Catalog is a volume that was produced to sit on a table where books are displayed in an Art Gallery in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The joint venture of the Pinelandia Art Gallery and Dragon's Breath Publishing requires such a volume for the benefit of the patrons of the gallery.

This is a biography of my grandmother's family that is shown in both pictorial and anecdotal fashion.

The Triple Thrones of Theuniss is the fourth book in the Dark Moons on Chimera series of fantasy books. It wraps up part of the Rhumgold Saga that tells of triplets born under the sign of planets coming together. They are separated at birth but must come back together to occupy the Triple Thrones that were foretold by an ancient race of creatures who predated mankind on Chimera. Stay tuned for more tales as the adventures of Kn'Ross and tribulations of Kn'Rose are also nearing completion. Read and enjoy!