My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Charles Drago]

Thanks for the heads-up, Charles. I'm not sure what reasonable in this case would be, but having been an academic I am used to spending on hard-to-get books, so no problem there. Yes, I believe I ordered the better edition of A Certain Arrogance. From the way you describe Evica, his interests seem to have cut across a whole spectrum of literary and anthropological issues; he seems from your description to have been quite brilliant. I take it his work engages/dialogues with the likes of Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz? Looking forward to reading him, too.

I'm afraid that I can't answer your question. Surely George Michael was interested and well read in the areas of symbolic/interpretive and cultural anthropology, and I'll check with Alycia Evica to determine if works by Turner and/or Geertz were in his rather large personal library (currently at the University of Hartford).

I'm eager to read your evaluations of the books.