Author: J. Hayes Hurley

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 …

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 livi …

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 consci …

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 mee …

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 collabo …

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 me …

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 li …

A mysterious donor has given a gift to a New York publishing house to pursue the question "Is there progress in philosophy?" A senior editor, Dan Snyder, forms a separate imprint called the …

A successful abstract painter now living in an artists’ colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life’s work. During the talks, there …

Quinton Wrigley, a professional bridge player, lives in Manhattan with his mother, Gertie. On Sunday nights they dress up in 18th Century costumes and delve into such archane subjects as The Mysterie …

Seven members of a film crew show up one at a time at Billy’s Bar, the famous watering hole at the American Club of Hong Kong. There they talk to the bartender, Ho, who has the power to elicit their …

Little Albert Gachot had only one modest ambition in life. That was to own his own men’s accessories store. Finally settling in Marseille, France, his only chance to fulfill his dream is to borrow mo …

In Third Trilogy: "Corvus at Rest" follows the historical musings of a one hundred year old Roman dictator. "Thou Saw the Fields" chronicles the fate of three young Harvard grads …

TWO NOVELS ARE SET IN TURTLE BAY,  an upscale neighborhood in midtown Manhattan east. In The Historian at Eventide, an eighty-five year old historian races to find the meaning (if any) of global …

The Priests of Time contains ten short novels. The first five are located in Manhattan, and include settings in Washington Square, the Chelsea Hotel, Times Square during the 1960’s, th …

Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled ‘A Hurley Hexalogy.’ Included are ‘The Last Existentialist, ‘ in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; ‘Auteur, ‘ the …

In novel one, Asher and Oliver, an aged novelist goes on a spontaneous road trip in search of new material. In novel two, Cezar and the Sixers, a cosmologist tries to find a connection between the va …

Traces of Fire is J. Hayes Hurley’s third hexalogy There are six novels in Traces of Fire. Diamond House: an artist living in the Caribbean pushes the envelope of Gestalt perception. Rimbaud Redux: a …

There are three Madagascar novels. The first,  Madagascar in the Time of Covid,  follows an elderly novelist to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where he is confined in his hot …

There are six novels in Somewhat Deeper Thoughts. In Bossa Nova at the Copinette, a Young Turk in cognitive studies finds both true love and a love of Brazilian music. In Doney and Danny, w …