From rural New Hampshire and on to New York, Paris, and London, The Clarksons is a panoramic tale of a multi-generational family of novelists and publishers, who play out sometimes loving, sometimes parasitic relationships with one another. J. Hayes Hurley is a novelist and a philosopher. He is the author of sixteen novels including "Diary of the Attending Rays" and "Those Brownsville Blues." He holds a Ph.D in philosophy from Yale University.

Nikki and Caroline are two beautiful city nymphs working in present day Berlin, though their memories sometimes carry back to ancient Greece. Through them four Berlin stories interlock. The first is called The Red Princess and concerns the sometimes silly, sometimes fateful doings of members of the now deposed German nobility. The second, Willing Peter, takes up the issue of will in a city notorious for its failed triumphs. The third story, Pan Willie, literally makes a connection between Germany and ancient Greece, doing so with the use of a jazz trumpet. The last story, Herr Gluck and the...

An existentialist philosopher, Jack Ireland, is invited to Genoa, Italy, to search for a packet of missing letters supposedly left in a grand palazzo by Nietzsche in the 19th Century. He ends up living in the palazzo as tutor to a cognitive challenged aristocratic boy. What could be the value of philosophy for this child? What is it touches all human souls? J. Hayes Hurley is novelist, a philosopher, and a philosophical novelist. He is the author of The Diary of the Attending Rays, Those Brownsville Blues, and Leaving Lisbon. The Genoa Dialogues is his 18th novel.

A young novelist and a newly minted philosopher take off on a road trip across America in a refurbished VW van. Along the way they meet a host of characters, discuss theories of perception and consciousness, read the novelist's first novel, a Baudelairean feast, and recount the struggles of the philosopher when a student in a mythical graduate school.

Motion and Rest, now in its second edition, is a Gnostic Western. Robert Glin, a paperback writer of western genre pulp, yearns to write an authentic novel about the new American west. One day he meets an old drifter, Thomas Sligo, who claims to be a Messenger god fallen to earth and who, in fact, can perform minor miracles. They form a caravan and roam the new American west while on their way to salvation. J. Hayes Hurley is the author of nineteen novels, including Those Brownsville Blues, The Clarksons, and Twenty-four Days Under Another Sun.

Joe, a recent graduate from photography school, moves to Amsterdam to seek fame and fortune. Along the way he meets two beautiful Dutch girls, Hennie, a poet, and Danique, a painter. The trio collaborate on sophisticated installations that send Joe on his way to greatness. Joe ends his collaboration with Hennie by marrying her. He continues to use Danique and others while making his way to the top. This novel gives readers an inside look at what is going on in contemporary art photography. As well, it is reminiscent of the iconic novel Jules and Jim, with its romantic unfolding of a menage a...

First Trilogy contains three short novels including "The Poet at Home," "My Soul is Among Lions," and "Professor Chamberlin." The narrators of all three books are old men who reflect back on the wise and unwise lives they have led and the loves they have had and lost.

Second Trilogy contains three short novels including: "The Fence", a tightly-woven existentialist fable; "Oblivion", a caustic look at the fate of certain houses, families, and literary efforts; and "Just Cursing", the revised second edition of an earlier Hurley novel.