Norman Weeks is an autobiographical and experiential writer.
An Autobiographical Letter is the straight-through narrative of a half-century of the author’s life, relating the experiences that fed into the writings. Its companion volume, Autobioscenes & Necrographies, extracts and expands some episodes from that life. The first book is the panorama, the second some snapshots.
Also derived from personal experiences are several books of travel narratives: Nature Norm’s North Woods, excursions into the natural world. Tropical Ecstasy, a nostalgia trip back to Brazil, to the town where the author lived as a Peace Corps Volunteer. And Two Weeks in Eternal Egypt, as a member of a tour group exploring the antiquity and sociology of that country.
Out of the author’s deep experience of Rome came the trilogy, Roman Ruminations, “The Psychology of the Human as Enculturated Animal”. Its three volumes are: Loneliness, Instinct, and Love. (The three volumes of the series also available separately.)
Matters of Life and Death contains further excursions into human psychology.
Culture-versus-Nature is a principal theme of Walden Contemporaneous, bringing the values of Thoreau’s book from 1845 Concord, Massachussets to 2020 United States.
The author’s one major work of fiction, Symphony of Stories presents its characters in the cultural contexts of art, music, literature, and our technoculture.
Throughout his varied writings, Norman Weeks expresses a cosmopolitan appreciation of our world and the wide range of experiences possible in one human life.
