Book reproduces paintings and drawings by Manhattan artist Stanton together with poems by Winthrop Smith, of Augusta, imagining conversations and scenes that might have taken place in the artist’s studio
Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Spring House’ and ‘Baker’s Dozen’
A debut novel from Christian Crabtree and the sixth volume in Maine author Ethan Wolfe’s excellent Regulator series
OFF RADAR: ‘The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations’
A collection of recollections concerning a series of “gatherings” in the 1980s and ’90s by more than a dozen white people and Maine and Canadian Wabanakis
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Murder in the Maple Woods’ and ‘From the Mountains to the Sea’
A superb mystery with a hint of a sequel, and a beautifully illustrated tribute to the Penobscot River Restoration Trust
OFF RADAR: ‘Wait: Poems from the Pandemic’
Notes toward a supreme virus
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Northern Reach’ and ‘The Healing Garden’
A multi-generational story about fractured Maine families, and a fascinating instructional guide to understanding herbal medicines
OFF RADAR: ‘The Lowering Days’
Stretching reality is a condition of this book, as it interweaves and plays with history, myth and life as we know it on the coast of Maine
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Thistle Inn’ and ‘Dilly’
The history of a real-life ‘Cheers’ in Boothbay Harbor and a new western novel by Matthew Mayo
OFF RADAR: ‘Oslo, Maine’
The tone is light but the situation is heavy, writes Dana Wilde of this new novel by Marcia Butler
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Talk Radio: A Novel’ and ‘Prospects: Mining Maine for Riches’
Ham Martin’s colorful portrayal of talk radio’s impact on people, and a novel with an entertaining family and business saga