The combined three books of The Mythville Trilogy in the one book, an apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on... More > the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life. < Less

Experiential essay about the post-election diaspora since 2000, as told by author Douglas McDaniel.

Poetry written during a 10-year span of criss-crossing America in a roving-eye view of the turn-of-the-century landscape of... More > Mythville, or, as the author puts it: "It's all a bunch of Mythville." With work from four separate books by Arizona-based author and poet Douglas McDaniel, the bard-inspired voices of Milton, Blake and Yeats, as well as the saturnine streak of early beat poesy, ring through this collection of poems and essays. From the southwestern deserts to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, "Many Moons to Mythville" is a foot-to-the-floor blast through the mythical roads of American life. < Less

A collection of poems on the apocalyptic mythos of the new century, drawing from a decade-long crisscrossing of America,... More > from the Southwestern deserts to rural New England. Poems influenced by the works of Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot and W.B Yeats. < Less

This project started during the massive Bull Run Fire in 2006 in the mountains of central Arizona, and led to a series of... More > serial moves around the West: to Oregon, then back to Arizona. It took on full steam when, out of boredom, the author mused away the long summer hours while working behind the cash register of a big box book store, and then was kept aflame as McDaniel toiled as a reporter in Telluride, Colorado, as the poetic side of the author quietly pursued the hot currents and savage storms of his life, both interior and exterior, culminating in an attempt to catch up to the harsh polarities of the 2008 election season in Denver. Always intended as words to be performed, beat style, this is McDaniel's nod to the greats of the Beat Generation with a message of hope, despite the times. < Less

Challenged by the strange currents and savage storms of his life, author Douglas McDaniel captures an apocalyptic age of... More > turmoil that began with the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and an oddly coincidental solar storm occurring in New England. This personal narrative leads all of the way through eight years of disaster on the North American continent. It is a “living novel” and commentary on life during wartime, on strange weather and social chaos … a rave and borderline blog by one man trying to stay ahead of the wave during a new century spinning out of control. < Less

In the days after Sept. 11, author Douglas McDaniel watched the world change before his eyes after moving to Ipswich, a town... More > on the North Shore of Massachusetts. This collection includes heartfelt reflections of a nation turning its fears into an appetite for war. Includes the essay, “Media Arts in War.” < Less

Vol. 2 of American Mythville Literary Review includes work by featured poet Charles Clifford Brooks III, Carolyn Richardson,... More > Heather Ann Schmidt, Richard Aberdeen, Jaimie Ondrea Dunn, Bill Costley, Betsy Tan, Jenn Baumgartner and more. To submit your work for American Mythville's next issue, e-mail: mythville@yahoo.com. < Less

Part of the Mythville, America series, a mystical journey into the cosmic engine of America as automobile. Also see The Bog... More > in the Hole Where the Animals Fell, Human Search Engine and William Blake in Cyberspace. < Less

A critical look at the role of media in the new century, written from the experiential view of Douglas McDaniel, author of... More > "William Blake in Cyberspace" and "23 Roads to Mythville." < Less