I mean, let's face it, no way could I afford a $700-a-day cocaine habit on a college teacher's salary. People like this, especially the audiobook part, and buy my books. It's Pulp-Lit Productions, a trans-media publishing house specializing in pumping out omnibus collections of classic pulp titles across multiple platforms: hardcover, paperback, e-book (EPUB, Kindle, and Interactive PDF), and audiobook. One of the signal challenges of my teaching practice is trying to tap that collective intelligence for the benefit of everyone in the room - including me.

I may be the most knowledgeable person in my classroom, but the combined knowledge of 30 undergraduates dwarfs mine like a monster truck looming over Mr. That's the power of collective intelligence. I'm dead sure I've learned more from my students than they've learned from me. It also provides intellectual oxygen - teaching undergraduates keeps me constantly in touch with a whole community of brilliant people, colleagues as well as students.

Racket One provides health insurance: it's my day job as an instructor in the New Media Communications department at Oregon State University. Two of them pay me money the third doesn't yet, but I have high hopes. That's a mouthful and it's hard to deliver it without making it sound like so much dilletante-y mush. I bill myself as a college teacher, author, publisher, audiobook narrator, and public historian. you're still here? OK, fine, let's do this. And by that I do mean “move on.” As in “Nothing to see here.” You're not seriously interested in all this crap, right? Life is short! Those 'I Dream of Jeannie' reruns aren't gonna watch themselves, you know!. Full details and catalog can be found here, at .ĪBOUT ME: Everything you need to know, and a bunch of extra stuff you don't, about Yours Truly is on the left side of this page.įinn J.D. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. PULP-LIT PRODUCTIONS is my trans-media publishing company, specializing in hardcover, softcover, e-book and audiobook editions of omnibus collections of classic pre-war pulp fiction stories by such authors as H.P. Here's a link to the 'lost chapter' (cut from the book for lack of space) the main web site for the book is here. Published by The History Press in June 2012. The world's dumbest-ever drug smugglers.Shanghai artists and their victims (and would-be victims).

WICKED PORTLAND: A book about the late-1800s underworld of Portland, Oregon, including. It's accessed through a hub page, linked here. a browsable Web archive (465 columns, at last count) OFFBEAT OREGON HISTORY: A weekly newspaper column that has evolved into a suite of public-history resources, including:

Wicked Portland by Finn J.D. John