Washington Writers’ Publishing House wants to give you $1,000
Elisavietta Ritchie
Writers and poets of the greater Bay Weekly area, here is your chance to see your best work as a book.
Storm Sandy pushed the venerable Washington Writers’ Publishing House annual deadline to December 1. Fiction writers and poets living within a 75-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol — in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia — thus gain an extra month to prepare manuscripts for entry in two annual book competitions.
Allan Lichtman has unlocked the secret to counting the vote
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Can’t stand to wait another week to know who’s going to be president?
Ask Allan Lichtman.
“My 13 questions will tell you who will claim the popular vote,” says the American University political professor, a Marylander who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006.
His keys have called it right in every election since the middle of the 19th century, when the popular vote was first counted.
Haunted Annapolis: Ghosts of the Capital City
reviewed by Sandra Olivetti Martin
We are not alone. Other feet have stood in the spot our lively toes now wiggle. Other lives have occupied the place we now call home. Historians may strain an ear to hear reverberations of their passing; most of us are deaf. Until Halloween, when their calls stir the air around us, raising our hackles.
In Plants of the Chesapeake Bay, John Hopkins University Press has just published what I consider the most comprehensive and well-illustrated field guide. Lytton John Musselman and David A. Knepper’s 217-page book has outstanding color pictures and descriptions of wildflowers, grasses, aquatic vegetation, trees, shrubs and other flora. It also organizes the plants in communities within the Bay region.
Janet is an utterly personal book describing the human experience with purity, truth and guilelessness. That is how elegies work.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
The elegy is a literary form dear to the human heart, for it’s the best reply we can summon to death’s speechlessness.
Janet is such a work, created by Bay Weekly contributing writer Al McKegg in honor of his wife, Janet.
With soaring highs and crashing lows, theirs was a love story made for literature. It was too cruel for real life.
Denis Murray wants to put his two cents on the table. After 70 years of reading and thinking and thinking and reading, he believes that death, hate and responsibility are gifts we should appreciate.
With cold weather here to stay, warm up with these Chesapeake authors
Bay Weekly staff
The sights are great, world travelers report. But, they insist, you only really get to know a place through its people.
All around us are people who are the keepers of untold treasure.
Untold until you scratch the surface. Then you find yourself in the company of people who’ve recorded history being made, and people who’ve delved into the past to recover history made long ago. People who know more than anybody else in the world about this or about that.
Read all about it in a big new book: Traveling the World for National Geographic
Sandra Olivetti Martin
High-school sweethearts Tom and Lynn Abercrombie grew up when the world was big and globe-trotting journalists lived big. A legendary National Geographic photojournalist, Tom had carte blanche to travel to exotic lands and stay until he had the pictures and story he wanted. Lynn, a freelance Geographic photographer, was at his side.
In two new local novels, truth wears the thin disguise of fiction
Elisavietta Ritchie
Captivity, corruption, escapes, flights in truth and fantasy, murder, messages from the dead, revenge, suicide …
The stuff of thriller fiction. But in the lives of authors Donald Shomette, Helena Mann-Melnitchenko and Eugene Melnitchenko, such events were terribly real.
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