First up in my Kickin' It Old School is Open Letters Monthly, a literary ezine dedicated to the arts. Before you start nodding off, dreading another article about some musty, dry publication written by a bunch of self-important geezers, let me tell you a little bit about the… Read full post »

I wonder how the conversation went between Madison Smartt Bell and his publisher when he described his newest book. I imagine it went something like this: 

Publisher: "Hey, Madison. So, I hear the new book is coming along, eh? Excellent. Exciting stuff. What's it about, again?"

Bell:… Read full post »

Before the internet became the commercialized home of the soundbyte, the word was the word. In its early days, image, audio, and video files did not exist. The sole means of expression and of spreading information was text. Not only was the web devoid of all those bells and whistles, but… Read full post »