Authors Write about the Maine Experience
Wesley McNair, a poet in his own right and Maine's premier anthologist, has compiled essays by Maine writers about what it's like to write and live in Maine in his new book A Place Called Maine: 24 Authors on the Maine Experience. The nonfiction writers McNair gathers here include newcomers and natives who reside and write in all reaches of the state. They wax lyrical on everything from adventures and misadventures with neighbors to encounters with wildlife, to weathering a cold climate to embracing Maine’s rich natural landscape. Of course they also look more philosophically on the state of being in Maine. Among the authors included here are Ann Beattie, Carolyn Chute, Richard Ford, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, and Monica Wood.
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