Short Writing for Short Attention Spans

Lately I’ve been scanning our Short Story shelves, trying to find a cure for my case of the reading blahs.  There are two ways I go about choosing titles, which fall into two categories.  Category one: books with eye catching covers.  Category two: books with good reputations from trustworthy sources. 
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and [...]

Shelf Examination: Short Stories

Once upon a time, on a hectic blue planet, everybody was so busy earning a living, doing housework, feeding the dog, feeding the cat, feeding the marmoset, running errands, and surfing the internet, that nobody had time to read anymore.  So everybody in the book industry moved to upstate New York and raised goats instead of writing and publishing, [...]

Big Day in Film, Comics, Sports, Poetry, Cooking, Music, Graphic Novels, Literature etc.

So, where, oh, where, do all these ideas for blog posts come from anyway, you might ask?
Well, when you work for an institution that nominally acts as a portal of all human knowledge, how hard can it really be? I thought I might talk about what I’m reading currently, a volume of poetry and [...]

Short Novel, Long Story, Novella: Recommended, 199 Pages or Less …

In the mood for something to read, something with some pop, that you maybe don’t have to mortgage a week of your life to read? How about a romance or some horror or something post-modern or an old fashioned classic or something Beat; some solid Science Fiction or maybe a touch of the existential or [...]

Shelf Examination: Mystery

When the poor sap stumbled into my office, I could see he was desperate. “You’ve gotta help me,” he rasped. “You’re the only one who knows.”
I eyeballed his lanky form and decided he was more sinned against than sinner.  “Have a seat,” I said, and gestured to the battered computer chair where all my clients [...]

Check It

The library has a commitment to protect your privacy.  Your name, email address, address, driver license number and materials checked out on your card are confidential.  With that said, you should consider yourself amongst a very privileged population who is privy to what I currently have checked out. 
Things I have checked out on my library [...]

Reading Rut

I know, it’s hard to believe.  I work in a library, surrounded by books, inspired daily, blah blah blah.  Cabin fever has set in and lately I can’t seem to stay very attentive for more than five minutes.  Every time this happens, I find immediate mitigation from a short story collection.  A few weeks ago [...]