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M. Hertz DeForest,“The Oldtyme Radio Wizard” (Meaty Media), who contributed heavily to JPT’s maiden voyage, has agreed to share with us the treasures of his vast midden representing all of American pop culture. Drawing the usual munificent salary for which JPT has become justly famed in far-flung quarters, DeForest has taken time from writing his magma opus, From Ink Spots to Snoop Dawg, to be a JPT field correspondent, so we say, “Three cheers and a Princeton Tiger for M. DeForest!”
Westy La Jubba (Gospel of Timmy), before he joined the god squad, was a circus roustabout, a short-order cook, an A.B. in the Merchant Marine and part-owner of a Dairy Duke franchise in Krum Elbow, Maine. After his conversion he has been on leave to wider fields of Christian endeavor. When he is not fossicking among old bits of papyrus, he is writing a biography of the hard-hitting evangelist preacher of the Gilded Age, Billy Munday.
Dewey Aeid (Kiddeez Kultur Korner) is head of the library science program at Celina Women’s House of Penitence and Correction, Celina, KS., where she dispenses rough justice with a rope’s end while dealing out learning on such matters as her namesake’s infamous book-classification system. She has served as sergeant at arms for the U.S. Correctional System Librarians’ Association and plays right guard on their championship netball squad.
S.J. Jackson (Softball) retired from AAA baseball in 1987, after a long career as a pitcher, center fielder and relief hitter for the Port Absalom (
Willis Quick (P.I. Richard Poole--Storyteller's Space) has become something of a staffer for JPT, and we are happy to draw on his seemingly bottomless cache of trunk MSS. An acknowledged master of all pop-lit. genres, W.Q. for this tale (drawn from his novel Deck the Malls with Murder) hews to the form of the classic hardboiled detective yarn and delivers a close-up portrait of his best-known lead character, investigator Richard Poole.
Constance Reeder (A Moderne Klassick) is a dab hand at reviewing, having worked for lo! these many years on the
Nicholas Shaner (Conversation Overheard One Night at the Galloping Tortoise Tavern--Storyteller's Space) is an award winning young author with a self-published book of poetry (Upon First Waking) under his belt as well as a 40,000 word experimental novel entitled Creatio Ex Nihilo. The JPT piece might be received in cognizance of his approach to that novel, wherein he has "aimed at creating an organic way of storytelling by presenting images through language that is free yet precise--more a structure itself than a structuring." Nicholas, a philosophy student, is a 2002 Georgia Young Author's Award recipient and 2005 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key winner.
Glenda White (Choir Story: Revenge of the Girdle and Carmen, Sophia and Me--Storyteller's Space) has followed a varied career, as research assistant to a psychologist, as executive secretary to a physiologist, as a singer and performer, and for 41 years as a spouse and mother of two sons. She has always loved to write, vividly relating amusing experiences. She enjoys traveling and picking up stories to tell and write about. Her late husband John had a prime role in creating The Journal of Provincial Thought, and she is pleased and proud to be among our first contributors.
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