Announcing the Print Release from Hilaritas Press... Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
The print release is finally available
"My head is inside my image of the universe . . . which is inside my head . . . so my head is inside my head." – Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
New from Hilaritas Press...
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
From: https://mailchi.mp/508f6d64c7a8/hilaritas-press?e=509be3708c
RIWYCGAW page on Hilaratis: https://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/reality-is-what-you-can-get-away-with/
Dear friends of RAW,
When we started Hilaritas Press, following RAW's request to his daughter Christina to keep his books in print, we set out to republish 19 of Bob's titles. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With was number 19 on our list! And so we've reached a significant milestone!
Along the way, we published a couple of unexpected RAW gems, The Starseed Signals, and Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson on Aleister Crowley, and we've got a few more surprises on the way, but this book was challenging for a number of reasons, needing a little extra care and handling!
We are euphoric that our cover designer for mosbunall of our Hilaritas Press titles, Scott McPherson of amoeba, agreed to come out of a hiatus and make this very cool new cover for the book. Once again he captured the essence of a RAW title beautifully.
This new edition features a new introduction by Joseph Matheny, an old friend of Bob's. Joe had a lot of conversations with Bob when this book was originally published in 1992. His introduction tells part of that tale, but do check out Mike Gather's interview with Joe on this month's Hilaritas Press Podcast, details below!
One of the goofy but delightful aspects of working on this project, republishing Reality Is What You Can Get Away With, was that when sending emails back and forth to Joe, Scott, our proofreaders (Nick Helweg-Larsen, Oz Fritz and Steve “Fly” Pratt), and the RAW Trust advisors, the title of the book was always too long to keep repeating, so usually we just referred to the book as, "Reality," and so emails had subjects like:
• A question about Reality
• Reality Introduction
• Proofing Reality
• Something I don't get in Reality
• Is this a typo in Reality?
• The cover of Reality
Even the acronym, sometimes used, is a bit of a pain to type: RIWYCGAW, and experientially not an easy word to pronounce.
But, we did it! 19 books published!
Click here for more info and links to purchase RIWYCGAW.
BTW... We had a bit of an issue getting the print version of Reality out when we wanted to (on March 23rd!), but those issues have been resolved, and both the print and ebook editions are available pretty much everywhere books are sold. Thanks for your patience!
The Hilaritas Press Podcast
In episode 31,
Mike Gathers chats with multidisciplinary artist Joseph Matheny about
Reality is What You Can Get Away With, magick, ritual, method acting and more….
Click Here for Episode 31!