The Daily Bulletin is subtitled Newsletter on the State of the Culture, or, How to Write World Literature from Parker, Florida.

Parker is a suburb of Panama City, on a bayou between the Air Force base and the paper mill.

It's not a weblog (blog), although I post to it daily, and link to other sites, and it's not an online journal (OLJ), although it contains journal entries, and letters, and is personal, self-referential, and repetitious, as John Dos Passos said about Thorstein Veblen's lecturing style.

Remember U. S. A., with its short fiction, poetry, newspaper articles, biographical profiles, and filmscripts?

At The Daily Bulletin, you can see a book take shape, see it becoming part of a three-part book, see the book become part of a three-book series, as OUT OF THE BLUE: REFLECTIONS ON THE WRITING LIFE, THE PUBLISHING PROCESS, AND HOW SOME BOOKS JUST GROW, LIKE TOPSY became part of DIRECTOR'S CUT: AMERICAN LETTERS' SMOKING GUN, then DIRECTOR'S CUT became a part of The Art Brew School of Daily Typewriting Writing.

Why a web page?

It's fast (I put the entries up the day I write them), cheap ($20 a month), technologically advanced (I use lots of color pictures, links), it is accessible (anyone with a computer and a printer can download material from the site and print it out), and I control the content, and the style (no committees, panels, boards, no style sheets, standards, rules).

I had been writing for 25 years before I went online. It's like the worldwide web was invented to provide a forum for my work. There's no one out there realizing its potential as I am.

Yes, but is it literature?

It is. It's where the novel went. I call it F Log. For fiction. But also for flogging the dog, a man writing for himself and booming it out into the black, insatiable maw of cyberspace. The howling void. He is flogging a dead horse.

Kindred spirits, who are looking for it, find it. Don Quixote was flogging a dead horse.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

You can't pick up the satellite feed with a cat-whisker receiver.

But if you have the right equipment, and know where to look....

Garage Band Books is the ink-and-paper publisher of pamphlets, chapbooks, books, and series of related books written by Jack Saunders. Anything you have to do, you have to go on and do yourself, Roland Kirk says. Disintermediate now.

Many musicians produce their own CDs and sell them between sets and after gigs, together with spin-off merchandise like hats, T-shirts, coffee mugs, funeral home fans. The money is in the paraphernalia, Jimmy Buffett said, about Parrotheads.

Whenever I read, or attend a trade show, I write a pamphlet for the occasion, print it up, and sell it, or give it away, at the reading, or show.

I include them in the book they are a part of, and send them out as samples of my work, when I ask a publisher to reprint the books in a uniform trade or mass market paperback edition with a design to the collection, or ask an agent to represent me in their sale.

Whitney Lee
The Fielding Agency, LLC
269 S. Beverly Drive, #341
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Dear Whitney Lee:

I am just finishing up a book called THE KING OF DAILY TYPEWRITING, in which I claim to be the successor to Charles Bukowski, King of the Hard-Mouthed Poets.

"It isn't bragging if you done it," Dizzy Dean says.

Bukowski wasn't only a poet. He wrote novels, a screenplay, and nonfiction pieces in Open City and the L. A. Free Press. His letters have been published. They contain criticism and literary theory. A couple of documentary films were made about him. Book-length interviews, anthologies of reminiscences of people who knew him, and a couple of biographies of him have been published.

His books are all in print and sell, overseas, in translation. In fact, he was more popular abroad than he was in America, until Barfly came out.

Enclosed find a description of THE KING OF DAILY TYPEWRITING, a resume, a list of the books of my stack, to date, some reader comment on my work, several fliers, and three pamphlets from the book, or the book immediately before it.

May I show you the manuscript?

Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404

Bukowski has a reputation it took his publisher 30 years to build. You could make a case that Bukowski built Black Sparrow Press.

The years from 50 to 60 were good ones for Bukowski. The years from 60 to 70 were great years for him.

I'm 64. Don't have 20 years left in me.

But Roy Clark, of Hee-Haw fame, says after being an unknown for decades, while you develop your chops and learn the ropes, you become an overnight success and have two years in the limelight before you are a has-been. Make hay while the sun shines.

I reckon I have five more good years. I'm hoping for seven, because 40-Year Run doesn't end until August 31, 2011.

I'm ready. Put me in, Coach--I don't smoke.

I don't have brand-name recognition, but the work is there. The franchise. Waiting to be discovered.

What an event! Like catching a coelacanth.