From: Jack Saunders
To: J. D. Rhoades
Subj: Hick Lit

Dear J. D. Rhoades:

I checked out Safe and Sound in the library and read it. I realized I had read it before, but I read it again. It drew me in.

I forgot how it ended.

I checked Good Day in Hell out of the library and bought The Devil's Right Hand from Amazon.com.

I'd support a local bookstore if we had one, but all we have in Panama City is Books-A-Million.

I like Redneck Noir. I call what I write Hick Lit. By analogy with Chick Lit. I call Chick Lit Chick Lite.

Hick Lit contains poems, prose vignettes, mini-essays, self-interviews, literary criticism, literary theory. The books are organized by day, because I post them online, daily, as I write them, at The Daily Bulletin.

The books are organized thematically.

Christmas Stories is a black memoir. About Christmas.

at the house was a black memoir about being at the house after working a three-month contract-writing job, and having money to live on, while I wrote, at the house.

Jack Saunders, a fan