Arts and Culture (Books)

Article - Books; by J. Alex Knoll - 11/5/15

The Nightingale’s Song

A story of Greek proportions

Anyone who’s visited Annapolis is familiar with the site of the white-uniformed Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy. But unless you’re one of the 1,000 or so to graduate from the service academy each year, life behind its stone walls and iron fences is full of mystery like some secret society.
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Article - Books; by Diane Burt - 8/13/15

The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

Interspecies relationships have shaped history

Brian Fagan, anthropologist and scholar (professor at the University of California Santa Barbara), is the author of this and other interesting and deeply researched books in the field of archeology. The complexity of relationships in his family menagerie inspired The Intimate Bond’s history of how humans and animals have interacted from the Ice Age to modern times.
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Article - Books; , Summer Reading Guide; , Special Editions; 6/25/15

Travels with a Good Book

Bay Weekly’s Summer Reading Guide

A good book can take us farther than an airplane, keep us otherwise occupied longer than a week away from home and cost far less than any vacation. True, I’d rather be reading my book on a sandy beach with an ocean breeze. But even on my own back deck, lolling my cushy birthday chaise, a good book, a summer’s day and a cool drink make a vacation.
In that spirit, the Bay Weekly family of readers offers its annual summer reading special.

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Article - Books; by Michelle Steel - 3/26/15

Alone atop the Hill

The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan

Cove Point is getting attention for more than its great views, good fishing or the controversial topic of natural gas import and export.
Thanks to Carol McCabe Booker — a Cove Point resident for three decades — the bump in the Bay in southern Calvert County is becoming a research center on black journalism pioneers.
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Article - Books; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 11/13/14

100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic

This weekend, meet author Gary Pendleton and the artists he covers

We English speakers lack words for what the French call plein air painting, the Italians al fresco and Spanish speakers al aire libre.
But fresh air painters we’ve got aplenty, as Gary Pendleton’s new book 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic lavishly illustrates.
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Article - Books; by Leigh Glenn - 11/6/14

Ruth Kassinger’s A Garden of Marvels

Read the book, meet the author

Gardeners don’t need degrees in botany. But knowing a little botany — plus a bit about the history of human relationships with plants — creates a deeper gardening experience. Just ask local author Ruth Kassinger.
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Article - Books; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 8/28/14

Blue-Eyed Boy: by Robert Timberg

The healing power of a good story

Bob Timberg has a face you don’t forget.
How the U.S. Naval Academy graduate and Marine first lieutenant — handsome son of a mother who was a McCall’s cover girl at 13 — got that face is a question you don’t ask.
Yet now, “as I edge into my seventies,” Timberg says, he has written a book revealing the whole story.
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Article - Books; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 7/31/14

Mid-Summer Reading Guide

Still time to escape in a good book

With half of summer stretching before you, there’s still time to get lost in a good book.
Armchair travelers stretch our confined worlds with books that take us places we’ll probably never see on our own. Certainly not with the open-eye and open-heart clarity of the writers we love best.
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Article - Books; , Things; by Lucia St. Clair Robson - 7/31/14

15,000 Little Free Libraries and Counting

Mine makes 15,001

Five years ago in Wisconsin, Todd Bol built a model of a one-room schoolhouse as a tribute to his mother, a former teacher. He installed it on a post in his front yard and filled it with books to give away. It was such a hit with his neighbors that he built and gave away several more, each with a sign that read free books.
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Article - Books; , Arts and Culture; , People; 5/29/14

The Writers Next Door

Is your neighbor the next New York Times bestseller?

The death of reading — like the death of Mark Twain — may be greatly exaggerated.
For the Digital Age has given us high-quality, nearly instant do-it-yourself publishing. Thus the book each of us has within can find a publisher — if it finds an author.
Then it must find readers.
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