Do you love books? Are you interested in hearing from the author and looking behind the curtain at what the author was thinking while writing? Perhaps have the author respond to a question or two that has been on your mind about a particular scene or character.
Look no further than the Maine Public Book Club! Hosted by Bill Nemitz, the Maine Public Book Club takes on eight or so books a year in a series of virtual book club events.
New this year are TWO fun member giveaways around each book club meeting!
We will be partnering with AudioFile Magazine and giving away a one-year subscription to the digital edition of the AudioFile Magazine to five random book club/Maine Public members before each book club event.
AudioFile is the #1 audiobook review source in the world for audiobook reviews and recommendations. They celebrate the magic of audiobook and the unique pleasures of listening to books. We’re very pleased to have them on board!
Not a member? Take a moment to sign up! It’s a free and great way to satisfy one’s love of books and to connect with authors of books you’ve enjoyed.
We’ve also connected with the wonderful team at Decor Maine Magazine and they are giving away a year’s subscription to their magazine at each book club event as well.
Delivered to your door six times a year, Decor Maine Magazine is the definitive guide for living beautifully in Maine. Their inspiring content features innovative interiors, character-filled houses, and the stories of the people behind them, plus portraits of the vibrant artists, architects, makers, and creatives at work here in Maine.
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2024 Book Club Lineup:
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
NEW DATE: Friday, October 18 at 7:00 pm
This meeting will be in person at Bull Moose in Bangor (Maine Square Mall, 683 Hogan Rd) and available to stream for virtual attendees!
Author Bio:
Morgan Talty, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, is the author of the national bestselling and critically acclaimed story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, which won the New England Book Award, was a Finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, and is a Finalist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His writing has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, LitHub, and elsewhere. A winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize, Talty’s work has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (2022).
Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. Talty is also a Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine.
Reviews:
"Fire Exit, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, is utterly consuming. With this book, Talty more than fulfills the promise of his glorious short story collection, Night of the Living Rez. The storytelling is both spellbinding and quietly devastating. The novel is ultimately about family and belonging, about the stories we need to know even when they threaten to burn our lives down. A father desperately wants to let his daughter know about her body’s secret history, even while his mother forgets her son altogether. This book is filled with humor, and humanity’s strange wonder at its own desperation and depravity, as only Talty can do, with his subtle charm and crystalline prose, his sober reckoning with what love can and cannot do, what healing is and is not possible in our families. The novel absolutely smolders." —Tommy Orange
"Fire Exit is gorgeous. A genuinely original examination of the costs we pay to tell ourselves certain stories about who we are and where we come from. Talty is a revelation on matters of the heart, particularly the tenderness and warfare of contemporary manhood. This is that rare thing: a frankly honest novel about hard things written without a trace of bitterness. I loved it." —Brandon Taylor
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker
Thursday, November 21 at 7:00 pm
Click here to join the meeting!
Author Bio:
Ellen Baker is the author of Keeping the House and I Gave My Heart to Know This. She has worked as a bookseller and event coordinator at an independent bookstore. Originally from the Upper Midwest, she currently lives in Maine.
Reviews:
“An engaging, multigenerational family saga…Baker deftly weaves the lives of three generations of Larson women into a moving tale of secrets, identity, and found family.” —Booklist
“A sprawling, beautiful delight of a novel spanning nearly a century as four generations gradually peel back the layers of long-buried family secrets that may just change everything.” —Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter
Maine Public Book Club: All Books Considered Partner Bookstores
These wonderful bookstores are providing a purchase discount to anyone purchasing a Maine Public Book Club title while Maine Public is featuring each specific title:
