Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be. A podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Kelly Fordon is the author of an award-winning short story collection, Garden for the Blind (Wayne State University Press, 2015); a poetry chapbook, The Witness, which won the Eric Hoffer Award for the Chapbook; and a poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House. The Metro Detroit-based author/teacher recently released a new collection of short stories, "I Have The Answer." Today's story is selected from that 2020 book and it's titled "Jungle Life."
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
James Henry Hall is a local writer and filmmaker--his most recent, 'A Ben Evans Film,' was adapted from a short story by Josh Malerman.
Today, on A Little Too Spooky, Hall will be reading a new work of short fiction titled 'Chapel Hill,' about a salesman in the 1950's desperate for some business, wandering his way into a (literal) ghost town.
https://www.abenevansfilm.com/
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Our mini-series featuring scary stories from local authors continues with Ophelia Crane.
This is the pen name of Tekedra Lofton, a local librarian. She's published several novels over the last decade. Today, she's reading a particularly creepy story from her anthology, 3 a.m.
Theme music provided by
Steve Greene - https://stevegreene.bandcamp.com/
Additional background music by John Duffy of Pato Y Pato - https://patoypato.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
For the next few weeks, "A Little Too Quiet" becomes "A Little Too Spooky."
We'll feature three local authors reading short stories that uniquely conjure eerie, scary, or just downright spooky ambiance.
This week, Kathe Koja reads a story from her recently released collection, 'Velocities.'
https://kathekoja.com/
Theme music provided by
Steve Greene - https://stevegreene.bandcamp.com/
Additional background music by John Duffy of Pato Y Pato - https://patoypato.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Casey Rocheteau is a writer & poet based in Detroit; the inaugural winner of the Write A Home artist residency from 2014. We spoke with Rocheteau about growing up in Cape Cod, her formative experiences as a writer in the New England area, her time in the Slam Poetry scene, and a supernatural encounter with what may or may not have been the ghost of Charles Bukowski!
Rocheteau recently read/performed two works of poetry for the Ferndale Library virtual author showcase, Beginning | Middle | End.
Discussed in this episode
Rocheteau's writing, such as The Dozen.
The Detroit Justice Center
Also, Ramune Soda!
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Since it's October, we can't resist running through some of our all-time favorite scary books! Staff members discuss some of the most sensationally creepy novels from the horror genre.
Music provided by Steve Greene (of Voyag3r) and John Duffy (of Pato Y Pato).
Discussed in this episode
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Josh Malerman's Unbury Carol
Stephen King: IT, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box & the Locke & Key graphic novel series
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery & The Haunting of Hill House
Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Fear Street series by R.L. Stine
Victor Lavalle's The Changeling
Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake
Justin Cronin's The Passage
Jason Moss' The Last Victim
Daniel Cohen's Phone Call from a Ghost
Alvin Schwartz' In A Dark Dark Room
Jay Anson's Amityville Horror
Find them all in our online catalog. www.ferndalepubliclibrary.org