On Michael’s letter, and on on-line journalism.
Los Angeles, California
July 31, 2000
Dear Readers,
Today’s letter is by Michael Welch, an editorial assistant at the St. Petersburg Times, in Florida, where he writes occasionally about entertainment.
Michael is also the proprietor of his own web site, Commonplace – An On-Line Journal, where he writes about life as a young man on the Gulf Coast. It’s an interesting and very readable experiment in literary honesty; as Michael explains in one entry, “I want to write about the parts of myself that people might find distasteful.”
I don’t know much more about Michael than what I’ve read on his site, and intoday’s letter; his letter came to me over the electronic transom. But given the way that he writes, I feel that I know him pretty well already.
Yours truly,
