Welcome to Iconoclast Publishing! We are proud to introduce our new title,
Confessions of St. Augustine
by James F. Mueller
The Confessions of St. Augustine is a trilogy (The Mendicant, The Militant, and The Missionary) chronicling the spiritual journey of an artist in the latter half of the 20th century to the present, narrated and illustrated by the artist himself.
Sometimes spokesman, sometimes dreamer, sometimes Walter Mitty with a paint brush, Augustine Schmitt paints an America we’ve all believed in at one time or another. But whether it’s really just kitsch, camp, or commercialism, however, is another story. Because running counterpoint to this paean to the America of our youth is the voice of a Holden Caulfield grown up into an Alexander Portney debunking the very America he’s now painting. Masking his talent with a “wise guy” façade, he finds more justification making chaos out of “order” than order out of chaos. Thus the title of the first section of the first novel: “Portrait of an American Wiseguy.”