Roger Allen Moody writes about the fascinating history of Maine timber harvesting and Paul Doiron has released his ninth Mike Bowditch mystery
Maine Authors
Maine illustrator Melissa Sweet earns national children’s book honor
The Carle Honors celebrate her creative vision and dedication.
OFF RADAR: Poems from Alice Persons and Peter Kilgore
“Be There or Be Square” is a pleasant poetic amble through what might be a day’s worth of unhurried reveries on the past and present, and “Quarry: The Collected Poems of Peter Kilgore” offers crisply imagistic poetry of the Maine coast.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Now You See the Sky’ and ‘Bad News Travels Fast’
It is a rare book that makes the reader so uncomfortable that it is hard to read, but even harder to put down.
OFF RADAR: ‘Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home’
Tom Sexton’s poetic cosmos spans Eastport to Anchorage, and beyond
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Maine Has Moxie,’ ‘How Do Fairies Have Fun in the Sun?’ and ‘Cinnamon Birds’
Books for young readers offer fun Maine history, fairy adventures and a story of friendship and conservation
OFF RADAR: The bent fictions of Jefferson Navicky
His fiction is like looking at a stick held half in and half out of the water. It’s straight going into the water. But under the surface, it appears to bend at a weird angle.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Cattle Drive’ and ‘Something About the House’
Ethan Wolfe releases the latest in his excellent string of westerns and Jane Harvey’s second novel doesn’t quite measure up to the first
OFF RADAR: ‘My Life in Water: Poems’
Poetry collection by Christopher Fahy offers prismatic narratives
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Beyond the Truth’ and ‘Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine’
Bruce Robert Coffin releases the latest in the Detective Byron mystery series and Lincoln Paine’s 2000 release is back in print