These Small Hours is a convergence of language and voice featuring Essays written by Russell Cordell Staker. Additionally, this is the outlet for These Small Hours which can be found across every major podcast platform. The author reads his essays there as well as offers perspective about the writing. The podcast is an effervescent and curious consideration of Russell’s varied and omnivorous reading–intellectual, heartfelt, and nuanced.
Russell’s first book, a Novella is entitled In These Small Hours and can be heard in its entirety via his podcast. It is a hymn to fathers and sons as well as a meditation upon the power of language as a ballast in the turbulent current of life. Its story plumbs the depths of mortality; it also reveals ghosts sometimes seen and usually only understood in the solitude of the heart. It is a vision for the tenderness we protect at all costs even when the rawness of life encourages apathy and bitterness.
Russell is presently at work on two new books–a novella and a full-length novel. Original essays and thoughtful literary considerations delving into the power of language are forthcoming in 2024–lend an ear to These Small Hours. Additionally, subscribe to receive regular written columns in a newsletter format by the author at: