Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Wichita, 1962. I read Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books in bed with my Boy Scout flashlight. It was after the parents’ call for “lights out” an...

My presidential bookcase, No Kings Day

Last night I finished reading "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson" by Jerome Charyn. A beautiful novel, wonderful historical ficti...

It began with a June 19 Facebook post by artist Linda Anne Lopez of Winchester, Virginia. Linda and I met several times over the years. She...

I’m having a hard time deciding which books to keep and which ones to give away. Why this comprehensive shelf-cleaning now? Is it time for t...

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

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...

All this book-banning makes me think of all of those books I read that might meet disapproval now from the GOP Know Nothings.  When I was in...

The American Library Association wrapped up Banned Books Week and now there are no banned books in the land. Wishful thinking. Know Not...

I decided to cancel my Aug. 3 appearance at ARTCORE'S Music & Poetry Series in Casper. I was on a double bill with musician Lauren ...

A university professor complained on Facebook that her upper division literature students don't know the name Gerard Manley Hopkins. Nev...

Just added to my reading list: "Blue Dreams: The science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds" by Lauren Slater. I wi...

The most recent book I've read by D.H. Lawrence is "Sons and Lovers." It's the only Lawrence novel I've read. Ever. ...

What do I keep? What do I recycle? What do I throw away? The questions of spring cleaning. Over the weekend, I vowed to clean up my writ...

Some fantastic writers will be reading tonight in Laramie. I won't be one of them, as I am here in Denver helping my daughter Annie....

"Violence is as American as cherry pie." Black Panther and SNCC activist H. Rap Brown said this is a 1960s speech in Maryland. H...

Most people consider "Anne of Green Gables" a children's book, specifically, a book for girls. As a child, I didn't read...

Plan to attend the Booklovers’ Bash, the primary annual fund-raiser for the Laramie County Library Foundation, on Friday, October 24, 6 ...