ONE OF our aspirations for this website and its assorted blogs is to be an idea factory for the literary arts– experimenting with new techniques and strategies in an attempt to break out of the niche within which are trapped not only indy projects like ours, but increasingly, literature itself, within the vast noise of the noisiest society in world history: 330 million shouting, screaming voices, many of them writers.

WHICH IS WHY we reject “One Size Only” thinking. The notion there’s only one way of doing things– or, as Henry Ford famously said, “You can have any color car you like as long as it’s black.”

Colors in our presentations? “Can’t do that!” say people who still watch black-and-white TV, look only at black-and-white paintings at the art museum, and read somber tomes of bleak descriptions of alcoholic Bukowski-wannabes lying comatose in back alleys.

Pop motifs? Over-the-top characters? Dramatic situations? A faster-than-usual pace? “NO!!” other lit people scream, who’ve been trained to believe only that which is inaccessible and difficult qualifies as “Literature” with a capital L, meant for a well-screened cognoscenti. “Connoisseurship”; “heightening of the prose style” and all the other rationalizations for artistically playing it safe.

Yet for writers to escape the prison cell this society has placed them in, they’ll have to crash out. With crowbars, battering rams and dynamite.

We’ve taken a few modest steps in doing that, including the novella The Loud Boys, available via ebook at several outlets, with print version coming. Hyper-pop fiction, which includes multidimensional writing.

(An excellent review of it by Michael Maiello just came out at his Substack, here. Please read the review –and while you’re at it, become a subscriber of his. Michael’s columns are consistently interesting.)

ALSO, we have two multiple-viewpoint stories to be featured here in winter and early spring, along with other striking offerings. Multiple viewpoints are a precursor to the multidimensional version. Watch for them!

OTHER plans are in place. Now, if we can just get our hands on some artistic dynamite. . .