Living Out Loud

An action of emotion or intent, an expression as art given meaning with typography. "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you, I came to live out loud." The words have taken on a broader meaning. As gay pride, to live out loud. Otherwise, as who you are, living out loud. The original words, penned by author Émile Zola, a life lived with a singular intention, writing. A prominent French novelist, a “naturalist” theorist and political activist of the late 19th century. Though many of his writings once banned with concerns by publishers as extreme realism, presenting the influences that shape human behavior as too graphically explicit and sensationalist. Never the less, popular and appealing to the masses. Many of his stories reproduced in pulp fiction magazines of the time, named for the low quality of paper printed on, “newsprint.” Still more stories printed in “penny dreadful” and dime novels, the weeklies featuring serialized novels characterized as “cheap thrills”. High readership where many well known authors got their start, where unconventional fiction influential to present day film industry writers and filmmakers. However, with the rise of comic books, paperback novels, television and movies, came the decline of pulp magazines. But genre fiction lives on. The superheroes, larger than life characters, sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, westerns, detectives, crime and murder, true confessions, sex and romance alive on the big screen, e-books and audibles. As for his other writings, a direct influence on the “new journalism,” telling it like it is. Without a doubt, Émile Zola lived to live, living out loud.