It’s August and we have three great Bookends events coming your way. Be sure to stop in or call the bookshop at 207.687.8120 to reserve your seats. Tickets are $10 at the door and include light refreshments, lively conversation, and Q&A with our featured author.
Wednesday, August 6, 6-7:30pm ~ Shannon Parker, author of Love & Lobsters, currently under option for film. Meet Charlie, a lobsterwoman in Christmas Cove, Maine, whose friendships, and endearing relationship with her grandmother, will warm your heart…and then there’s the hot new guy staying in the lighthouse! Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Saturday, August 23, 6-7:30pm ~ Poet and academic Carrie Etter joins us all the way from Bristol, England. Etter is perhaps best known for her fresh approach to poetry, prose poetry, and eco poetry. She is the editor of two anthologies, has been a visiting lecturer at several universities in the UK, and recently launched her own press, Fox and Star Books, with a focus on underrepresented poets. Etter’s work includes Imagined Sons, Scar, The Tethers, The Weather in Normal, and Grief’s Alphabet. Signed copies of Etter’s poetry collections will be available for purchase. Photo courtesy Fabrizia Costa.
Thursday, August 28, 7-8:30pm ~ Join us for a fantastic evening with Maine native Ron Currie, author of The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne, currently under development with Netflix. Set in Maine, this gripping crime novel is both a brutal and tender story of family, heritage, and the roles women are born to or take up as a means of survival. The award-winning author of five books (notably Everything Matters!), Currie’s accolades include the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The WallStreet Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Review of Books are fans of Currie’s work, and he is drawing apt comparisons to esteemed writers including Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and John Irving.
“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.” – Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author
*Please note this is a new time slot to allow you to enjoy the Wiscasset Art Walk from 4-7pm