Upper West Side Philosophers - Yoga for the Mind

Bonjour, j’espère que tout va bien pour vous.
Un petit rappel pour vous dire que le one-man show débarque au Kubus de Martigny les 5 et 12 novembre 2025.

C’est un pari un peu fou : celui de transmettre des outils philosophiques par l’humour. Ce saut dans la confiance n’existerait pas sans la solidarité. Merci de tout cœur.

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Nobody knows the ins and outs of the media better than novelist Timothy Balding, a journalist in his own right and former CEO of the World Association of Newspapers. Which is why it is no surprise that the media and its toxic effects on our nation’s psyche are at the center of his hilarious and caustic new novel "The Spectator."

https://www.westside-philosophers.com/publishing2/book_pages/thespectator.php

We are grateful for Andy Christopher Miller's passionate and insightful review of Balding’s most recent novel "The Spectator" here: https://youtu.be/GQ8GpDYxDUM

If the media isn’t your main interest but the absurdity of our political landscape, check out Balding’s prophetic 2019 novel "The Zucchini Conspiracy."

https://westside-philosophers.com/publishing2/book_pages/zucchiniconspiracy.php

The renowned German author Ulrike Draesner (certainly Nobel Prize material!) has been way overdue in the English-speaking world. Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. is extremely honored to bring to you in English her groundbreaking novel "Channel Swimmer" – a book most of us will easily relate to, knowing as we all do what it means to live through a crisis, go through a rite of passage, and suffer the vagaries of love.
https://www.westside-philosophers.com/publishing2/book_pages/channelswimmer.php

If you happen to be in London check out her event at the Goethe Institute

https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26794667

I am also pleased to share New Books in German's interview with Ulrike Draesner about "Channel Swimmer" and her career at large.

https://www.new-books-in-german.com/ulrike-draesner-on-channel-swimmer/

Ulrike Draesner on Channel Swimmer: Crossing the Distances of Life and Language – New Books in German NBG interviews Ulrike Draesner

We are delighted to have had our very own Dr. Michael Eskin featured as a speaker together with translators Sandra Smith, Monica Cure and Sawad Hussain at the 2025 PEN World Voices Festival event “Translation on the Line: Censorship, Power, and the Politics of Language.”

We are delighted to have had our very own Dr. Michael Eskin featured as a speaker together with artist Ranaan Gabriel, and poets Forrest Gander & Moira Egan at the 2025 PEN World Voices Festival event “Transmediation: Visualizing Verse.”

Provocative and revelatory! Check out this "Conversation about Germany" with Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin.

https://www.literaturhaus-berlin.de/programm/ulrike-draesner-michael-eskin-gespraech-ueber-deutschland

A timely, revelatory, and absolutely necessary conversation in these trying and unsettled times. Globally available now! We are honored to welcome Ulrike Draesner, one of Germany's foremost authors, to the UWSP family.

Congratulations to Timothy Balding on another literary coup!

Spice up your January with "The Spectator," a contemporary social novel, laced with its author’s signature wit and dark humor. This mad caper of a novel examines the poisoning of a nation’s psyche by tabloid media and the existential torments of one man struggling to escape his fate as both one of its villains and its victims.

"Reality is stranger than fiction" or should we rather say that fiction comes closer to the truth than reality. Timothy Balding's brilliant satirical novel certainly encapsulates the absurdity of the political situation in the US better than our news feeds – and it is so much more fun to read!

"Not since Vonnegut has the absurd been so beautifully crafted into a clever, thoroughly entertaining adventure! Cool. Fun. Painfully relevant!" (Amazon Review)
The fun starts here:

The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts The United States and Bangistan, a former Soviet satellite dictatorship, are edging towards nuclear conflict. At any moment, their war of words, insults and threats may escalate into an exchange of missiles and an apocalypse. In the White House, President Ronald Rump hesitates between negotiating...

November Rose - The Film won "Best Inspirational Film" at Florence Film Awards. We are so grateful for having had the honor of collaborating with the stunning filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer on this project of consolation.
https://www.november-rose.com/
https://florencefilmawards.com/september-2022