Released on = March 7, 2006, 9:33 am

Press Release Author = Don Lucero / Oscura Press

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Is it possible to live a creatively realized life in
corporate America? A remarkable new book by a survivor of the constant corporate
layoffs during the dotcom-era, \"Necktie for a Two-Headed Tadpole: a modern-day
alchemy book\" by Jason Murk explores the question with wit, insight and dazzling
literary effect.

Press Release Body = Working for corporate America is a miserable experience. Can
you escape with your soul intact? Is it possible to live a creatively realized life
in corporate America? A remarkable new book by a survivor of the constant corporate
layoffs during the dotcom-era, \"Necktie for a Two-Headed Tadpole\" by Jason Murk
explores the question with wit, insight and dazzling literary effect.

Presented in the style of an illustrated modern-day alchemy book, Murk's first book
examines the creative process in the context of modern corporate living. Creativity,
the book makes plain, is a complex alchemy of ideas and impulses rooted in the
individual's unique spirit and experience, a reality fundamentally in conflict with
the purposes and operational demands of corporate life.

\"Necktie for a Two-Headed Tadpole\" (ISBN: 1-4116-7681-5, $9.95) will be of help to
anyone with an artistic inclination who struggles to escape from corporate America.
This book makes it clear that living and dying at your job every day in corporate
America is a problem. Corporate work is miserable; to call yourself a "cultural
creative" or brand yourself as part of any "creative class" is to give yourself an
artistic-sounding label which only distracts you from your misery. The only way to
live a creatively realized life in corporate America, in fact, is to get out of
corporate America.

Jason Murk has a degree in mathematics from MIT. He consulted for corporations in
the United States and Canada until he moved to a remote, rural corner of New Mexico.
He lives and writes "at the end of the grid" with no TV reception, no cellphone
reception, no mail or newspaper delivery, no internet access and just enough water
to keep life interesting. His life is also "bereft" of PowerPoint presentations,
expense reports, client lunches, corporate retreats, strategic planning sessions,
cost-benefit analyses, market studies, internal memos, and the obsessed
preoccupation with hourly changes in stock option prices.

This book will be available in both retail and online bookstores on May 1. More
information about this book, including author interviews, sample images from the
book, and scheduled book tour dates, are available on http://books.thewestern.net


Web Site = http://books.thewestern.net

Contact Details = Don Lucero, Oscura Press
Email: press@thewestern.net
Phone: 505-382-2792
PO Box 835, Tijeras, NM 87059