BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘A Child Shall Lead Them’ and ‘Coastal Maine in Words and Art’

Maine Authors

Published
January 23, 2020

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘A Child Shall Lead Them’ and ‘Coastal Maine in Words and Art’

The seventh Joe Burgess mystery and 28 stories from finalists in the Solon Center for Research and Publishing writing contest
Published
January 16, 2020

OFF RADAR: ‘Olive Again’

A clean, well-lighted book by Elizabeth Strout
Published
January 9, 2020

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Thread and Buried’ and ‘In Maine: Essays on Life’s Seasons’

The ninth volume in the "Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series, and wonderful essays on a love affair with Maine
Published
January 2, 2020

OFF RADAR: “Curious Toys”

A good, weird murder mystery by Elizabeth Hand, set in 1915 at the Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago
Published
December 26, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Bar Harbor Babylon’ and ‘The Body in the Wake’

A fascinating collection of true stories that trumpet the arrogance of wealth, and a dark mystery that offers a sharp commentary on Maine’s opiod crisis
Published
December 19, 2019

OFF RADAR: More poems of our climate

'A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis' and 'where i come from the fish have souls'
Published
December 12, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Dachshund Through the Snow’ and ‘A Culinary History of Down East Maine’

A new Andy Carpenter mystery and a romp through Down East food history
Published
December 5, 2019

OFF RADAR: Arts and crafts edition

A nicely crafted art book on coastal Maine, the 2019 edition of 'The Cafe Review' and a little something for the boat builders in your life
Published
November 28, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Rogue Plunder’ and ‘Bernard Langlais Revisited’

An exciting adventure set on a Maine island in 1716, and an artist biography for young readers.
Published
November 21, 2019

OFF RADAR: An eco-poet from Maine

Living as we do in a time when high art is expected far and wide to serve some explicit social-political-moral purpose, the poems in Jacqueline Moore’s new book, “Chasing the Grass,” fit the script perfectly.