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The Drunken Silenus

Morgan Meis begins with a painting of the Greek mythological figure who mentors Dionysus, god of wine and excess, by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens and spirals out from there, drawing on wells of philosophy, history, and art criticism.

Dead People

Essays

Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.

Angelus Novus

A Novel

An early novel by Meis and one of the first books published by Soft Skull Press.

Ruins (9780615751740)

Selected Essays

A collection of the best essays from one of America's best (winner of an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant) and most poignant, personal and philosophical young critics, Morgan Meis Ph.D, on art, culture, politics and the transitory and illusory nature of time.

Morgan Meis Selected Works