Conscious and Unconscious in America: Part One Rochester Unconscious, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>Conscious and Unconscious in America, Part Three: Nashville Conscious</strong> is a searching, intelligent, and deeply personal literary work about art, memory, selfhood, and the long effort to live consciously in America.</p><p>In this third volume of Richard Thomas's bold literary project, Michael/Richard moves from old wounds toward clearer self-possession. Through reflections on Charles Grodin, Viola Spolin, Jean Renoir, Robert Altman, postmodernism, politics, aging, marriage, friendship, and the act of writing itself, the book becomes both a personal reckoning and a cultural inquiry.</p><p>This is not a conventional novel, memoir, or essay collection. It is a consciousness narrative: a literary exploration of how a life is interpreted, defended, revised, and finally owned. Thomas blends philosophical reflection, film criticism, autobiographical fiction, artistic self-examination, and sharp cultural observation into a work for readers who want serious writing about the inner life.</p><p>At its center is a powerful question: How does a person remain free, truthful, and artistically alive after years of rejection, misrecognition, and institutional pressure?</p><p>Challenging, intimate, and original, <strong>Nashville Conscious</strong> speaks to writers, artists, performers, thinkers, and readers drawn to literary fiction, hybrid memoir, cultural criticism, and books about the difficult work of becoming fully oneself.</p>

• Conscious and Unconscious in America: Part One Rochester Unconscious, (Hardcover)
• Author: Richard S Thomas
• ISBN: 9798240941818
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-06-11
• Page Count: 482