The Magic of Everyday Life

By John Bredin

In a corporate controlled society that grows more banal, conformist and standardized with each passing day, finding the magic in the everyday becomes a matter of psychological survival.But as visionary thinker John Bredin shows here, since locating that magic is mostly the result of having a project, it is thus an act of conquest. In particular, the "creative conquest" of putting pen to paper, a cognitive act that allows for making connections, telling stories, incubating voice, releasing wonder and imagination, and opening spaces of magic in the ordinary.Bredin's postmodern adventure in meaning making veers from the aesthetic streets of Hoboken to an encounter with Don DeLillo's literary Hell's Kitchen, zig zags past two of the strangest stories ever told about Paul Sorvino and Sean Hannity, ruminates in a Newark cafe, and never loses its dialogic hope for a better world that might be. A world in which all of us can more easily achieve the magic we deserve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499627955
• ISBN13: 9781499627954
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"