Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My historical novel, "Zeppelins Over Denver," will be out soon from The Ridgeway Press. I recently proofed all 395 typeset pages a...

Ann Patchett's novel "The Dutch House" was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. First place went to Colson White...

Spending my days and nights with a close reading of the formatted text for my historical novel, "Zeppelins over Denver." Much of m...

I spent the past couple weeks with James. I knew him in my youth as Jim, Nigger Jim, from Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” On the eve of the...

I awoke thinking of Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins or The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World....

  Photos of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum  in Savannah (building in center). It was closed to visitors on the day we were ...

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

Reading contemporary fiction has many rewards. First, you get a whopping good story. Second, when the writer knows their stuff, you feel...

I blame Max Brooks. Yes, the guy who wrote “World War Z” and the excellent graphic novel, “The Harlem Hellfighters” (artwork by Caanan Whi...

The closest I’ve been to Iceland is the Maine coast. No recent volcano eruptions in Maine. Maine weather can be cold but Iceland has it beat...

I was gobsmacked by an historical novel written about a famous author’s experiences in World War II. “Sergeant Salinger” by Jerome Charyn ...

In a May 16 post, I was only a few hours into reading Amor Towles "A Gentleman in Moscow." Things seemed especially grim at that j...

I’m reading two books concurrently. One is labeled historical fiction and is Amor Towles’ “A Gentleman in Moscow.” The other is a sci-fi pos...

Reading a Dennis Lehane novel is no walk in the park. It is if your park is filled with intrigue, betrayal, revenge, murder, drug overdoses,...

I belong to the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook group . I spend a lot of time there suggesting books on various topics. I'm surp...

I found Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books and they are fantastic. Always a caper going on. Always sharp dialogue and lots of humor. Wes...

I was eight years old in the fall of 1959. We lived in the southwest Denver suburbs and my father worked at the Martin-Marietta plant furthe...

I’ve always been fascinated with Paris in the 1920s and 30s. The inter-war period. The tensions of those years add pizzaz to any book. So ma...

My sisters sent my wife Chris some Barnes & Noble gift cards to ease her path through chemotherapy. I went right to B&N Online and o...

Lisa See's latest novel, The Island of Sea Women , could have been set on a distant world. On a little known volcanic island , women hav...