Jay E Barry

Operations Management

Throttling the Bard

Throttling the Bard, a modern tale of motorcycle road trip mayhem, has been described as Don Quixote meets Easy Rider. Hilarity ensues when an antiquated English professor and his grad student travel the state of Nevada encountering cults, drugs, and the Burning Man Arts Festival. Within the pristin...

The Playwright at Work: Conversations

Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan take us behind the scenes in conversations with thirteen of today’s most distinguished playwrights, including Tony Kushner, John Guare, Wallace Shawn, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, and Sarah Ruhl. To familiarize the reader with the world of each playwrig...

Black Orchid

Actors at Work: Conversations

It's extremely difficult to be an actor, for many reasons: It's mostly unrewarding financially. It takes a lot of hard work before an actor even gets a part. A career is apt to be short-lived. The field is incredibly competitive. Cream does not always rise to the top. And yet actors young and old li...

Writing Your Dissertation One Paragraph at a Time

This pamphlet provides you with the skills to write your dissertation in a methodical and timely manner. It is constructed from personal reflections on my own writing, and on that of research students who have attended my writing clinics over the years. It combines useful concepts with a series of e...

The Wanted

Not a Who Dunnit, but a Will it Be Done crime thriller. Is the corpse washed up on the beach properly identified? How does fate bring together the couple who found it with the killer(whose corpse it purports to be), and his daughter, whom he has never met?

Chiral Mad

Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imaginations of Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Gene O'Neil...