I Want Me Mammy Books are getting shorter. I never used to be able to do that. New York emergency locksmith Joel Kostman's first collection of short stories, Keys to the City together with Brendan O'Carroll's novel about Ireland, titled The Mammy together run to about as many pages as a conventional novel. I'd like to say that novels are getting better, but that's probably not true. Just shorter, to match our newly truncated attention spans.
Locksmiths go everywhere, efficiently solving other people's problems with picks and pliers.
Their entire existence is a metaphor. No wonder Joel Kostman found so many good stories in his 20 years working the doors of New York City. In Keys to the City we peer over his shoulder as he runs into the loony, the sad, the sexy and the naked. If you've ever wanted to peer behind locked doors, especially locked doors on the tenth floor of a beat down Manhattan walk-up, you'll enjoy the vignettes in Keys to the City . Kostman is the first-person narrator.