The Maine Calling Book Club discusses Monica Wood's collection of interconnected short stories about the fictional mill town of Abbott Falls, "Ernie's Ark."
Guests:
Gibson Fay-Leblanc: writer, teacher and Portland Poet Laureate. His first book of poems, Death of a Ventriloquist, won the Vassar Miller Prize and was published in 2012.
Christine Marshall: artistic director of the Mad Horse Theater Company
Michael Hillard, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Southern Maine. He is currently writing a book on the history of Maine’s paper and logging workers entitled The Rise and Fall of the Paper plantation.