What’s Old Is (Can Be?) New Again

a guest post by Steven Womack

I can’t believe it’s been this long.

Then again, I can’t believe I’m this old.

Long before a lot of you reading this were ever born, a high school teacher in upstate Ohio assigned my junior English class a novel to read. I’d never heard of the book or the author and when we went to the bookstore to buy our copies, we were—to a manjack one of us (this was an all boys boarding school)—gobsmacked to see that the book was a mass market paperback, with tiny ...