About WP Books
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Why is it possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life?

—Walker Percy

 

Walker Percy worried about why the modern self was Lost in the Cosmos, the satirical title of his meditation on how the self has become so obsessed with the spirit of the erotic and the secret love of violence, despite living in an age in which technology promises to cure all ills and to map the genome of consciousness.  Percy's subtitle, The Last Self-Help Book, ironically hints at the boundaries of our predicament:  surrounded by self-help books, we lack self-understanding; bombarded with quick answers to all our problems, we do not know the important questions; and continually offered elaborate fantasies, we do not understand what is real.

WP Books is dedicated to publishing serious works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that help us reflect on our sense of displacement and that may provide brief connections to others struggling with our common problems.