Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Blame my errant imagination. As I read "Glorious Exploits," a new novel by Irish writer Ferdia Lennon, I kept hearing Roddy Doyle....

Just when I think I’ve read every World War Two-era novel…. “Clark and Division” by Naomi Hirahara brings us into the life of Aki Ito. She...

Saturday Morning Round-up: I’ve been interviewing the recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards. These are the awards given annually b...

My colleague Sue Sommers in the Studio Wyoming Review group opened up her latest review of an art show with this writer's quote:  “I wr...

I read Adam Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about North Korea last spring. "The Orphan Master's Son" is a humorous...

I don't often attend a literary event that has its own security detail. Face it -- it's not often that writers get death threats. ...

Thousands of tourists buy those cuddly plush toy jackalopes every summer as they cruise through Wyoming. These cutesy-pie jack rabbit/antelo...

Craig Johnson's latest Walt Longmire mystery  debuts May 15. Cheyenne writer Karen Cotton interviewed Ucross, Wyoming, mystery wri...

Robert Greer Robert Greer left Gary, Indiana, as soon as he could to attend college and eventually become the only international cancer s...

Thanks to Ellie Chamberlain and Kevin Shay of Tucson for referring me to this beautiful vid about "real poetry in the real world."

To commemorate ADD/ADHD Awareness Week (Sept. 14-18), I offer this essay, "We Are Distracted," which in a slightly different form ...

Lots of newspaper articles and TV coverage marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. moon landing. All of them seem to ask the same question:...

My Victory Garden is chugging along. So much rain. Tree and flowers and tomatoes are in shock due to the incredible amounts of moisture that...

Took me 21 years to discover Pete Dexter's novel "Paris Trout." It won the National Book Award in 1988. The book is set in a s...

Many of you already heard about the death of writer James Crumley in Missoula. He was the writer of great hard-boiled novels such as "T...

I've grown tired of the world of contemporary novels. So, during my last trip to the Laramie County Public Library, I picked up a batch ...

Listened to CD version of James Lee Burke's "Tin Roof Blowdown" on my trip to Riverton last week. I've always been a Burke...