Ghost Writ

Imagining the life of a mind . . .

It's ALL fiction. Especially the parts that are true.

(from 3_Now & Then)

The Download PDF of the complete book (00_Ghost Writ) includes navigation using links in the Table of Contents to chapters and sections. Click a title in the Table of Contents to go to the page. Click a page number to return to Contents.
If you View a file while on this page, you can print a copy scaled either to actual size (6 x 9) or to fit an 8.5 x 11 sheet.
A POD edition is available at Lulu.com for private circulation (no ISBN) and priced to cover only the actual cost of four-color printing (5 cents/page, owing to the use of color fonts and graphics). Check Lulu's homepage for discounts.
For information about books discussed in Ghost Writ— Sophistication: Rhetoric and the Rise of Self-Consciousness* and Rhetoric: Essays in Invention & Discovery by Richard McKeon.
The tabs "Ghost Writ"—The Project and Ghost Writ—"The Invention" lead to brief explanations of how this book came to be, and why.

NB: Afterword—a work-in-progess to be posted for review by 9/9/2020; project to be completed by 9/9/2022: 200 years in the future the lost early works of Joshua Cryst are recovered, with serious implications for the story of the American Republic since the late 21st Century.

Mark Backman

@wryghost or at this email.

(NB: Versioning refers to minor file maintenance. Complete book and its parts were uploaded 9.1.16)

*Contact me if you're using "Sophistication" in a class and have difficulty locating a hardcover edition. A paperback edition will be available Spring, 2019, on Amazon.

Ghost Writ: The Desert Wells Dialogues of Gilmartin Jacobsen (a fugue)