Discover new books on Goodreads
See if your friends have read any of Richard Weems's books
Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Richard Weems’s Followers (70)
760 books
|
2,259 friends
1,642 books
|
3,221 friends
589 books
|
219 friends
1,626 books
|
833 friends
46 books
|
376 friends
1,068 books
|
4,491 friends
50 books
|
394 friends
402 books
|
1,443 friends
More friends…
Richard Weems
Goodreads Author
Born
in Atlantic City, NJ, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
October 2007
To ask
Richard Weems
questions,
please sign up.
|
Anything He Wants
—
published
2006
—
3 editions
|
|
|
The Need for Character - flash fiction (Cheap Stories, #5)
—
published
2004
—
2 editions
|
|
|
From Now On, You're Back: stories
by |
|
|
The Fine Art of Fletcherism and two more stories (Cheap Stories, #1)
—
published
2011
|
|
|
Paradigms and Curbside Boxes (Cheap Stories, #2)
—
published
2011
|
|
|
Apples and Self-Interview - two stories (Cheap Stories, #3)
—
published
2011
|
|
|
Mercy - three micro-fiction pieces (Cheap Stories, #7)
—
published
2011
—
2 editions
|
|
|
Falling - avant-garde fiction (Cheap Stories, #4)
—
published
2011
|
|
|
Soup - three flash fiction pieces (Cheap Stories #6)
—
published
2011
|
|
|
Violence and Sitting Danny Rolling - two essays (Cheap Stories, #8)
—
published
2011
|
|
new story up at Aquifer
New story up at Aquifer, from The Florida Review: an afterlife of decapitated heads: The Beheaded.
Richard’s Recent Updates
|
Richard
rated a book liked it
|
|
| Calvino isn't so much a master short story writer as a master collector of short fiction. Marcovaldo, Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics are all brilliant collections with enjoyable reads along the way, which is why this collection of various pieces, i ...more | |
|
Richard
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood and need to try another time later, but something felt distancing in the very openings of these stories, and my engagement simply never picked up from there. | |
|
Richard
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| This just-pre-Walking to Martha's Vineyard collection shows you what he can do in a poem—sledgehammer imagery, despair and wicked humor working simultaneously. The sadness is palpable, the joy visceral. Some of the poems in here take a little work th ...more | |
|
Richard
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| Weak buildups to creepy imagery. Full stop. | |
|
Richard
rated a book liked it
![怪獣8号 1 [Kaijū 8-gō 1] by Naoya Matsumoto](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1607201837l/55310650._SY75_.jpg "怪獣8号 1 [Kaijū 8-gō 1] by Naoya Matsumoto")
|
|
| Has some funny moments. | |
|
Richard
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| Am I gonna keep checking out more Ito? Probably, though I’m leaning more towards the self-contained short stories than these extended series with added material at the end to make it all book-length. | |
|
Richard
is currently reading
|
|
|
Richard
rated a book liked it
|
|
|
Richard
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| Heard of Maupassant in short story circles for ages, had only read “The Necklace,” which felt more prototype than fully realized. Some stories here nicely highlight misogyny in a very deliberate way, but many others feel rather stodgy, though that co ...more | |
|
Richard
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| Definitely a mystery genre book. Drab Dragnet-style expositional dialogue, long sequences of characters thinking and remembering. | |
“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
―
―
“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”
―
―
“This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.”
― Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems
― Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems
“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.”
― Letters on Cézanne
― Letters on Cézanne
THE DISCOVERY SHELF
— 24 members
— last activity Sep 10, 2026 05:16AM
The Discovery Shelf is a readers and authors community dedicated to finding books that deserve far more attention than they are getting. Every month w ...more
Comments (showing 1-2)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Dear Weems:I know this comment is not related to books or reading, but it is related to ridiculous Japanese movies, so I figured it was roughly equivalent.
I just heard of this movie, which you have probably seen-- "The Happiness of the Katakuris". It's by Takashi Miike (obviously, "Audition" and "Ichi the Killer"). The cover image I saw for it has a happy Japanese family on the center, and demented claymation figures eating people on the sides. Everytime I see something like this (e.g. "Jesus Christ Vampire Slayer", "Zombie Strippers", etc.) I feel compelled to mark the movie for potential viewing, and to tell you about it. Now I can rest easy knowing that I've mentioned all three (real) films to you. Hope you're doing well-- I haven't been in contact for a while, and this is more convenient than e-mail.
Best,
Amy
But its damn good to hear from you, Meng. All is well here, though hectic. Happiness in busyness, you could say.
Yours,
Weems