A Year from Monday

1969 edition

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

• "Foreword"
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (1965)
• "Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop" (1965)
• "Seriously Comma" (1966)
• "Happy New Ears!" (1967)
• "Two Statements on Ives" (1967)
• "Mosaic" (1965)
• "Diary: Audience 1966" (1966)
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (continued 1966)
• "26 Statements Re Duchamp" (1963)
• "Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas" (1964)
• "Miró in Third Person: 8 Statements" (1967)
• "Nam June Paik: A Diary" (1965)
• "Where Do We Go from Here?" (1963, previously published under the title "Dance Perspectives")
• "Juilliard Lecture" (1967)
• "Lecture on Commitment" (1967)
• "Rhythm Etc." (1966)
• "How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run" (1967)
• "Talk I" (1967)
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (continued 1967)
• "Afterword" (1967)

See also

• List of compositions by John Cage