I recently had the opportunity to answer Lidija Hilje's questions for her lovely Substack entitled "For Love of Words." The result is reprinted here. And, for those of you looking for another great summer read, I highly recommend her beautiful, poignant novel, "Slanting Towards the
When I began writing “Port Anna” in the summer of 2020, I wasn’t sure when—or if—I would get back to Maine. There was so much fear surrounding any interaction with strangers that the distance between North Carolina and Maine seemed too vast and too fraught to travel.
In the summer of 1971, my parents bought a small cottage near Rockland, Maine. Built by two Bryn Mawr professors, the simple shingled structure had been designed as a summer residence, a retreat where they could entertain friends and family. Sometimes, to make ends meet, they took in boarders, others
July 1st, 7pm Blue Hill Books & Blue Hill Public Library 5 Parker Point Rd. Blue Hill, Maine Conversation with Peter Behrens
July 9th, 7pm Print: A bookstore, 273 Congress Street, Portland, Maine Conversation with Ellen Baker
July 10, 7 pm 3 Stonecliff Road, Biddeford Pool, 04006
