The Editor: How the Brewster Gazette Became the World's First Metaphysical Newspaper

John Hawkwood, meets a midlife crisis head-on when he resigns his professorship to buy a struggling weekly newspaper in the college town of Brewster, North Carolina. When he grows weary of writing editorials lamenting the shenanigans of the City Council or the scoundrels in Washington, he makes a drastic change. Henceforth, he will editorialize not about the mundane but about the transcendent: the nature of time, the hard problem of consciousness, and leaps of faith. The Brewster Gazette becomes the Brewster MacroCosmos, the world's first metaphysical newspaper. The Editor tells the story of Hawkwood's adventures doing these things and how, in the process, he discovers his own identity.