Every Day is a GOOD Day

<p>Anarchist Zen Buddhist Playboy editor and novelist <strong>Robert Shea</strong> is best known for the <strong><em>Illuminatus! Trilogy</em></strong> a cult classic co-authored with <strong>Robert Anton Wilson</strong> that has never gone out of print. He also had a successful career writing action-filled but philosophical historical novels such as <strong><em>Shike</em></strong> and <strong><em>All Things Are Lights</em></strong>. Shea was still developing his career as a novelist and was just sixty-one when illness cut his writing career short ruling out a planned sequel to <em>Illuminatus!</em> and also preventing the publication of other novels that were in the works. An outwardly conventional middle class man who was kind to his fans Shea was also a radical who published anarchist fanzines kept an authentic Samurai sword in his home and interacted with Wobblies and counterculture oddballs. Now three decades after his death <em>Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus! Writing and Anarchism</em> collects many of his short pieces giving readers a glimpse of the man behind <em>Illuminatus!</em> and <em>Shike</em>.</p><p>• • • </p><p>Entertaining thought provoking and richly varied <em>Every Day is a GOOD Day</em> is a perfect introduction to the anarchistic principles and humane thinking of Robert Shea - a man more interested in finding flaws in his own beliefs than he is in forcing those beliefs on others. - <strong>John Higgs</strong> author of <em>Love and Let Die</em> and other books</p><p></p><p><em>Every Day Is a GOOD Day</em> is here to preserve the memory of this good-hearted open-minded man - and to let more people enjoy his humane and freedom-loving writings. - <strong>Jesse Walker</strong> author of <em>The United States of Paranoia</em> and <em>Reason</em> magazine books editor</p><p></p><p>Shea's intelligence and sense of humor shine throughout this terrific book. Robert Shea truly seems the very model of modern armchair anarchist. - <strong>Eric Wagner</strong> author of <em>An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson</em> and Straigh<em>t Outta Dublin</em></p><p></p><p>Tom Jackson's delightful collection has rescued the wit warmth and anarchist mischief of Robert Shea - the other half of the Illuminatus! equation. This is a resurrection spell for a writer and an enthusiast's treasure trove! - <strong>Daisy Eris Campbell</strong> writer/director of <em>Cosmic Trigger the Play</em></p>