Books We Live By: 15 books

To "invite a monkey to tea” is to befriend our own mind-which is often compared to a drunken monkey for all its mad twists and turns. A wild monkey is full of irrepressible desires, and thus chases its own tail in its search for happiness! This book is about learning to welcome the mind as...

Ever since Salinger, nine seems to be a magic number when it comes to rendering debut short story collections. Frederic Colier's A Memoir of Absence is no exception. Embarking on an evocative journey through the heartland of our own delusions, Colier's terse prose guides us beyond the barren cultural...

Music has been my main preoccupation, for lack of saying obsession, for a good thirty years of my life. I breathed it, woke up with it, slept with it, and in between played and consumed it. In other words, I lived by it. Of course, back then the world was a different place, when youth manifested its...

Set in the rural lands of central Michigan, The Rain Crow follows the journey of a young man who is struggling to find a place in a life without a place for him. With a mother now dead and a father emotionally absent, Rudy is left with the family's crumbling dairy farm. He must choose between his...

A timely and compelling story about a bullied and overweight boy and his love of baseball. "Tanker 10" opens in Brockton, MA, in 1976, where bashful and overweight 10-year-old Jimmy just wants to read his books and toss the ball with his best friend Ben. Unfortunately, Jimmy is an entertaining...

As both a practicing psychotherapist and, Buddhist priest-teacher, Dr. Diane Shainberg uniquely integrates Buddhist spiritual wisdom with the practice of western psychological healing. She demonstrates how rather than searching for health through external solutions, one can look to his or her own...

The Playground is the Thing: "Why did you bring me here? To a place like this?" asks the bewildered Kate while trapped in the conceptual hopscotch of Frederic Colier’s relentless imagination. As moral outrage resurfaces in our overtly self-conscious Look-Forward-In-Angst generation, it...

"A Glimpse into the Firing Squad" consists of a collection of five produced screenplays, written and directed by Frederic Colier. Two feature psychological drama films: The Hindenburg Omen (2008), and Dinosaur Park (2010), and three short films, the psychological thrillers: Of Wanderlust (2003), and Desert Weeds (2004), and the reflective Bounce (2005).

Following the release of "A Glimpse into the Firing Squad," Vol1, a collection of five produced screenplays, Book Case Engine is releasing "Another Glimpse into the Firing Squad," Vol 2, a collection of seven un-produced screenplays, written by Frederic Colier. The collection includes...

This final volume of screenplays (vol 3), all written by Frederic Colier, concludes with two more feature scripts: the social drama, "1975," which is an American transposition of the French script, originally entitled, "M & N," which deals with the aftermath of the Algerian...

Someday Bruce Conner will be considered as a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic trend, along with the likes of Lawrence Stern or Marcel Duchamp. Strange claim you may think since none of them really created during the post-modern era. This claim is made clear in this book, which covers the filmic...

The primary obstacle to successful performance of any kind is our own mind. In a clear and compassionate style, Shainberg-Colier shows us how to understand and overcome the psychological barriers that keep us from achieving our full potential. The book demonstrates how to radically change our relationship...

Collection de Pièces de théâtre 1991-1992. Ce livre rassemble les pièces suivantes: Les Moustiques, 1991; L’Ascenseur, 1992; L’Ordre Alphabêtatique, 1991; Les Maîtres de L’Oblique, 1992; Les Machines à Ressusciter, 1992. Ce volume ouvre avec “Les Moustiques,” peut-être l’une...

April 2, 2018 was the 50th anniversary of a 1968 premiere screening in Washington, D.C. of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film remains the most fascinating cinematographic adventure given to experience. As a tribute to the masterpiece, and to the maestro himself, this essay which was...