A Year from Monday

A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings is a collection of essays, lectures and journal entries from 1961 to 1967 by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1967 by Wesleyan University Press.

[1][2] Its contents are: Kirkus Reviews felt that the work fell somewhere between genius and idiosyncratic.

It praised Cage as a humourist and felt his "prose style is the finest since Gertrude Stein".

[1] Dennis, writing in-depth on the works in the journal Tempo, felt a significant focus of Cage's was the importance of living solely in the present.

While noting the brilliance and entertainment of reading the various essays, he felt that facets of religious, philosophical and sociological analysis were scattered throughout and were well worth reading on that basis as well.