ONE THING we’re trying to do at Fast Pop Lit— a key part of the New Pop Lit project– in addition to using it to be quicker at posting new material, is to inject more color into today’s moribund literary scene. The “POP” in our title means we’re not just a literary site, but have been heavily influenced by other art forms, including music and painting. WHICH MEANS in part posting work which jumps out at the reader like a painting– such as this piece by Perry Genovesi, “Sketch Rex.” Take a look at it and see what you think! They want to don their blue newsboy cap, visit the Boulevard to watch th ..read more

AUTHENTICITY AND ART In the insane new world of Artificial Intelligence and everything fake, we at New Pop Lit believe the proper response to tech insanity is to embrace the natural and real– including real-world experience, and writing based on real-world experience. As exemplified by our new feature,“The Big Time” by Bob Bozic, a chapter from Bob’s memoir, Still On My Feet. Few people have had as varied and tumultuous a life as Bob– including homelessness, hospital stays, world travels, bartending, and as the featured chapter describes, boxing. Tough, atmospheric reality. We know you’ll enjo ..read more

NEW POP LIT’S EDITORS grew up in the Detroit area and have lived in and around the city– usually close to the Detroit River– much of our lives. Our current residence-headquarters is in Wyandotte, Michigan, which rests on the river, directly across from Canada. We were and are influenced by Canadian radio and television– we still listen regularly to CBC Radio– in the same way many Canadians are influenced by American culture. And of course, many of those who live and work in Detroit and throughout Michigan are from Canada. Which is our way of introducing our new feature, creative non-fiction by ..read more

CREATIVITY: What is it? Sometimes it’s presenting a new way of looking at things, a new angle, new viewpoints. Merging genres or mixing styles. Or contrasting, as with our new feature story– “Molasses” by Bud Sturguess— comedy and tragedy. A look at the Titan submersible disaster of 2023 and reactions to it. The story is really about: us. Humanity, with all our flaws, quirks, ambitions and foolhardiness which make us the unique– or uniquely foolish– creatures we are. Creativity is the goal of this project. Which means offering entertainment to readers, but at the same time, varied vantage poin ..read more

EVERY NEW YEAR is a chance for a fresh start. A do-over. An opportunity to this time get things right. Which is the attitude we’re bringing into 2024. Our goal: to punch a hole through the curtain of today’s culture and jump through it. Only one strategy will work: totally revamped literary art. This will include a sea change in how people view fiction and poetry. New standards. New canons. The only path forward. Let’s make 2024 a year to remember ..read more

NO DOUBT 2023 was a tough year for everyone except a handful of tech billionaires who gathered enormous wealth– — but we got through it, which is what counts. In so doing, at New Pop Lit we published a variety of sterling work, fiction and poetry both. In our admittedly biased opinion, some of the best writing to be found anywhere. Doubt this? Then click onto our “TOP OF THE POP” page and browse around. READ some of the stories and poems. They fit our goal of being readable and striking. WHAT ELSE were we up to in 2023? For one, our “Save the Writer!” petition, which has us standing at the for ..read more

ANOTHER Christmas? They have a way of sneaking up on us with all that comes with them– songs, gifts, joy, cards; how many days off from unliked jobs? Unforeseen mailings of chocolate the best part. Maybe, in this year of wars and turmoil, reflection on what this holiday is supposed to be about: Peace On Earth, not running about in shopping malls or making hurried orders care of Amazon or Walmart. The Wise Men carried gifts, but when all is said and done– guided by a star, in tune with the universe– they were likely far wiser than us. We wish Happy Holidays to one and all! -Karl and Kathleen ..read more

WE MAKE NO SECRET of the fact that as a literary project we look for writing talent. Talent not of the approved predictable “literary” variety– we’re not out to be the next The New Yorker or Paris Review. Instead, talent with an edge to it– and which shows hints of openings toward new viewpoints or new directions. For our final feature of 2023 we present one such story, “Straight and Narrow” by Joshua Vigil. Click on, plunge in and see what you think. She lived in a gated community with low hanging fronds that draped every door in fit boxes of shade. The bell clanged an unlovely sound. But she ..read more

FOR US, that’s the big question, as we’re a forward-looking literary project out to decipher how the literary art will change– how it must change to retain any place in this crazy noisy society. Or in any society. (One criterion we look for in new fiction is universality: Is it enough of a tale to appeal to anyone anyplace?) We’ll take, in our mad quest, pieces of ideas from anytime in the past– if we believe they’ll work with readers today. For instance: the yarn. The kind of Mark Twain Bret Harte Jack London story told at night around a campfire, or under an urban streetlamp, or in a dorm r ..read more

Is Poetry 3D? POETRY may be the most multidimensional art, because right now rules are few: there’s an endless variety of ways to create and present the art form. Unique ways of viewing and reacting to the world. TODAY we offer as powerful a feature poem as we ever have: “Slick” by Ali J. Prince. Want poetry with passion? Which addresses the world around us? Poems that grab the reader or listener by the lapels– or t-shirt or pajamas– to pull the person from their comfortable chair or complacent attitude and shake that individual to say, “This is the world. This is art!” If so, then you might e ..read more