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...

A round-up is a task performed by cowboys when they bring in the cattle. I am not a cowboy. But I spent 30 years in The Cowboy State of Wy...

"The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow." That's the refrain in...

For decades, I kept a copy of “Fiskadoro” by Denis Johnson. I liked the idea of the book more than the book itself. It was an early post-ap...

On the morning after I watched the conclusion of “Death by Lightning" on Netflix. One of the final scenes really got to me. It’s Firs...

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

Beginning Oct. 16, I will be reading John Fabian Witt ’s book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Am...

Michael Connelly, best-selling author and UF and Independent Florida Alligator alum is now writing about his days as a reporter in Daytona ...

I discovered Philip K. Dick and his mind-blowing novels at just the right time. In November 1975 I was a non-trad student at the University ...

How did the Dominican sisters think I could understand an Emily Dickinson poem, "I could not stop for death?" Sister Miriam Cath...

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair," F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story published in the May 1, 1920, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. I...

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...

The Letter Wait a Minute Mr. Postman  Return to Sender  P.S. I Love You Take a Letter, Maria A Dear John Letter Just a few of the pop songs ...

I am reviewing a new book today but first wanted to outline the pleasures and dangers of late-night reading on the Fourth of July weekend. I...

She’s pretty but doesn’t know it yet or maybe she does, maybe her new spouse told her that this morning before she hustled off to a new job....

Rob Tannenbaum wrote June 12 in the  New York Times : In songs like “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations,” Wilson did...

Again. Make America Great Again I’ve been exploring this phrase as it has taken over conversations, rallies, bots, blather, mind games, ...