Paul Quintanilla: 14 books

These modest lines which I wouldn't dare call poetry for lacking the power of art may at least bring a smile or a new thought into bold momentary relief for being something new, unexpected, though not very deep or certainly profound. My voice may be odd, too and may not harmonize immediately or comfortably...

“I saw my magnificent aesthetic monument wilting and fading all about me, dissolving away, losing what little substance it had for not having been cultivated. For that spirit-world I sought had to be exercised and though drink offered me a certain freedom, a certain easy unity with that world, my...

Positive and negative, negative and positive, the two competing forces within Carlton Phillips. This is a novel about how he is violently rocked by these forces. And finally surmounts them.

Jamie Budlow is a young man starting out in life. Starting out from his home in Arizona he travels to a city in the Middle West where he enters college as a freshman. This is a coming of age tale. And Book One is the first of Five Books as we explore and experience various aspects of his adventures.

How can one man own another man? What takes place in the heads of such men? How could slavery ever have been seen as natural and normal? This novel explores that most odd of relationships.

"Hell is other people," a character in Sartre's No Exit tells us. And for the employees of the Red and Black Fire Equipment Company this is mostly true. Written as a series of interior monologues (with a touch of omniscient commentary) The Industrial Park enters into the inner lives of these...

Furthering the adventures of Jamie Budlow, a freshman in college, he continues to be introduced to the greater world, and is introduced to love. This is the third book of a five book series dealing with Jamie's "coming of age."

Book Five of Jamie Budlow's adventures in a world larger than the one he grew up in. We accompany Jamie as he wraps up his freshman year in college and, that summer, returns home. This is the concluding volume of the five book series.

Book Two of five we continue to follow Jamie Budlow's adventures. A freshman in college it is the late sixties. And, like it or not, Jamie is caught up in the student protests on campus against the Vietnam War. In this second volume continues to "come of age."

Ernest Hemingway stood out in a significant manner back in the fifties. He had a beard. And he went about flaunting his beard in an "I don't give a damn" manner. We should remember that the fifties were a time of great conformity. Those who flouted society by wearing a beard could be severly...

This novel attempts to examine the nature of innocence and of living fully without it. Dereck Kramer, recently released from prison, is constantly tortured by his past. And haunted by the past, pursued by it, driven on by the unending combined furies of guilt and shame and disgrace he struggles to...

Book Four of the adventures of Jamie Budlow, a freshman in college exploring the larger world for the first time, takes us to Christmas time on campus. It is 1967. War protests, much drink, love and new friends, as well as academic studies, occupy Jamie's time and life. This is a coming of age tale.

Most novelists consider the daily routine of a menial job in an office to be too dull and uninteresting to merit the treatment of a full length novel. How can such an unchanging dull monotony hold the reader's attention, they may ask? Though the clashes of the titans at the top have been fully explored...

If travel is "broadening" then John Sawyer's adventures in the Land of the Dacks, an ancient third world country, are quite transformative. And he becomes a new man. This is also a novel of ideas.