Letters, Postcards, & Money in The Mail

[Correspondence] Analog Mail, 1999 I’ve been diving into the Reviewer archives of late and in one box of manilla envelopes I seem to have struck a vein of pre-millennial postcards and other mail. It’s people’s forgotten PR notices, tour schedules, payments for small ads, and other things like interview requests and general fluff mail. Interesting to reminisce about.     […]

book review: Shark In The Housing Pool

[Book Review] SHARK IN THE HOUSING POOL by Matthew B. Cox, 2016, paperback 330 pages, contact.matthew.cox@gmail.com I’m reading this right now. It’s a 2016 memoir from a formerly incarcerated federal ex-con named Matthew Cox who was featured on American Greed. He made lots of money by ingeniously concocting fake identities that he patched together from the social security numbers he […]