Michael C. Keith

This book is both a retrospective history of the gay community's use of electronic media as a way of networking and creating a sense of community, and an examination of the current situation, an analysis and critical assessment of gay/lesbian electronic media. Keith and Johnson use original interviews and oral history to delineate the place of electronic media in the lives of this increasingly visible and vocal minority in America.

Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.

Global Broadcasting Systems (1996) provides a comprehensive look at broadcasting throughout the world. It covers every continent, region and almost every country in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Within each geographical area, it presents the history, key issues, trends and status of broadcasting facilities and penetration; the control, regulation and management of networks and stations by government, domestic and foreign industry and the public; the financing of broadcasting systems; programming types and trends, including foreign imports; media freedom and censorship; and external radio and television services from other countries. The book discusses how new technology and political, social and economic factors influence the global media, and shows how increasing privatization has changed patterns of control and access.

PINGS: New and Selected Nanoscopic Prose Poems is a first of a kind: a collection of one-to-four line "penses," best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. Pings delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric "jolts of awareness" about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience-a world both familiar and exotic, if not alien at times.In this uniquely original volume, over 220 lyrical sketches inspire the reader to thought and inquiry--both familiarly-footed and utterly transcendent--about who we are and why we act as we do

Euphony: Micro Prose Poems contains works best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. The collection delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric "jolts of awareness," about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience-a world both known and exotic. In Euphony over 40 lyrical sketches inspire the reader to thought and inquiry-both familiarly-footed and utterly transcendent-about who we are and why we act as we do.

Global Broadcasting Systems (1996) provides a comprehensive look at broadcasting throughout the world. It covers every continent, region and almost every country in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Within each geographical area, it presents the history, key issues, trends and status of broadcasting facilities and penetration; the control, regulation and management of networks and stations by government, domestic and foreign industry and the public; the financing of broadcasting systems; programming types and trends, including foreign imports; media freedom and censorship; and external radio and television services from other countries. The book discusses how new technology and political, social and economic factors influence the global media, and shows how increasing privatization has changed patterns of control and access.

Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.

Bodies in Recline contains microfiction tales that probe the experience and struggle of humans as they attempt to retain their sanity in a world that frequently conspires against their effort to do so.Partly inspired by the acclaimed fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, Joy Williams, and Lydia Davis, Bodies in Recline explores the full range of human emotions and behavior in a style imbued with profound irony and deep humor, with an inclination toward the latter. Powerfully imagined, the pensees in this collection will take the reader on a sojourn across landscapes both exotic and familiar. Bodies in Recline demonstrates the full reach of the author's imagination and creative powers. Keith brings to the reader a singular collection of idiosyncratic and laconic narratives designed to fully engage and provoke. The epigrammatic tales between these covers provide a sometimes numinous often harrowing account of what we do and what we think and what we think we should do."Each glittering facet of the jewel we call Life is given a chance to shine in Michael C. Keith's excellent Bodies in Recline, from the tawdry to chilling, humorous to romantic, mournful to prescient. Keith is a master jeweler, chipping away all that does not matter, leaving us with a treasure we can enjoy for a long time."--Christopher Reilley, author One Night Stanzas"From out of the ordinary to the ordinary, Keith knows how to take us on a journey of the unexpected. His stories are witty, poignant, and daring. He demonstrates that he can write about anything. Keith's dry humor radiates off the page in Bodies in Recline. This is one of his best books to date. Michael C. Keith is truly the master of flash fiction, micro-fiction, and can give us stories of any length. This book resonates for the reader because we all know someone who he is writing about. It could be your neighbor next door, so you should tell him or her about it."--Gloria Mindock, author of award winning Ash"The flash fiction pieces contained in Michael Keith's Bodies in Recline reveal the curious, the quirky, and in some cases, the menacing, aspects of daily life. As a result of Keith's penetrating perspective and skillful writing, we see deftly presented the ironic and the counterintuitive dimensions that inhabit the seeming ordinariness of lived experience. If one of the purposes of excellent fiction is to enable the reader to see the world more acutely, more humorously--and at times, more darkly, than we might reflexively prefer-- then Bodies in Recline achieves this and much, much more."--Brad Rose, author of No. Wait. I Can Explain.Fiction.

In the tradition of the classic micro-fiction of renowned writer Lydia Davis, this singular collection explores the full range of human endeavor and behavior in all their varied and discrete (and not so discrete) manifestations. Keith's mini-stories, perhaps more appropriately called prose/poetry because of their lyrical nature, take the reader to places only a truly vivid and original imagination could. Often disquieting in theme and plot, the pieces within these covers invariably contain meaningful truths and lessons while managing to accomplish this in a witty and affecting manner.

Rarely a page long, these compressed narratives display a kinship to both prose poetry and micro fiction. These darkly witty snapshots capture the author's wry sense of humor and reveal his eye for quirky detail. There's something here for every reader's sensibility. - Allen Wier, recipient of the John Dos Passos Literary Award and the Truman Capote Award for Literature

In Pieces of Rags and Bones Michael Keith brings to the reader a singular collection of idiosyncratic and laconic narratives designed to amuse and enlighten. In the tradition of Lydia Davis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joy Williams, this quirky volume mines the full range of human behavior and experience for all its varied and distinct manifestations and consequences. Powerfully imagined, the epigrammatic tales between these covers provide a sometimes numinous, often harrowing, sojourn across landscapes both familiar and exotic.

"Stories set in the West inspired by landscape that has long intrigued and beguiled the author." "The short imaginative bursts in Leaning West capture the feel and mystique of the west. The book filters the western experience through Michael Keith's unique and somewhat twisted view. His stories are humorous, thought provoking, weird, and always entertaining. I grew up in the west. The stories ring true and I can relate to the places he takes us. For anyone interested in the west, or simply a unique perspective on life, this is a great read." --Michael Brown, Emeritus Professor, University of Wyoming

THE VICARIOUS TRAVELER is the ninth volume in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, compiling the best fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and interviews from the travel-themed literary magazine Lowestoft Chronicle.

John Donne wrote, "Death be not proud, though some have called you mighty and dreadful; thou are not so." In LET US NOW SPEAK OF EXTINCTION, death is mighty and proud, but while it is frequently a source of bemusement, it is also one of extraordinary amusement in the hands of an accomplished fabulist and allegorist the likes of Michael C. Keith. Indeed, this unconventional collection of short fiction might just as easily be titled LET US NOW SPEAK OF THE HUMAN CONDITION IN ALL OF ITS DIVERGENT MANIFESTATIONS, because that is its essential subject. Keith's new work probes the full range of emotions and behavior and redefines the term dark humor in the process.

The Broadcast Century and Beyond is a popular history of the most influential and innovative industry of the century. The story of broadcasting is told in a direct and informal style, blending personal insight and authoritative scholarship. The book vividly depicts the events, people, programs, & companies that made television & radio dominant forms of communication. This edition includes coverage of the technologies that have emerged over the past decade & discusses the profound impact they have had on the broadcasting industry in political, social, & economic spheres. The industry has been completely revolutionized with the advent of YouTube, podcasting, iphones, etc., and the authors discuss the impact on broadcasting. New sidebars scattered throughout the book showcase the intersections of broadcast history, & colors these events through a social, cultural, & political lens.

A short story collection from Michael C. Keith, master of the near normal and bizarre. "Michael C. Keith's ferocious imagination has been in overdrive, as usual, and the result is his latest book, The Collector of Tears. Each story is like being the passenger in a speeding car driven by a brilliant mad man; an elegant ride, but you don't know where he's taking you " - Boston Literary Magazine About the Author: Michael C. Keith is the author of more than 20 books on electronic media, among them Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Radio Cultures, Signals in the Air, and the classic textbook The Radio Station (now Keith's Radio Station). The recipient of numerous awards in the academic field, he is also the author of dozens of articles and short stories and has served in a variety of editorial positions. In addition, he is the author of an acclaimed memoir--The Next Better Place (screenplay co-written with Cetywa Powell), a young adult novel--Life is Falling Sideways, and six story collections--Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, and The Collector of Tears. He has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O.Henry Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the "Fiction Visionary" category. www.michaelckeith.com