Good Reads: Top Maine Writers Discuss Their New Works & Recommend Good Stay-At-Home Books

One silver lining of the stay-at-home orders is the chance to read some good books. We talk with some top Maine writers about their recently published works, and hear their recommendations for what to read during this period of isolation--and beyond.

• Lily King is the author of 5 award-winning novels. Her most recent is Writers & Lovers. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won numerous awards.  Click here to visit Lily's website. 
• Wes McNair is a poet, author and educator whose most recent book of poems is Dwellers in the House of the Lord. He has been selected for many fellowships, grants and awards, and he was poet laureate of Maine from 2011 to 2016. He is professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine, Farmington.  Click here to visit Wes's website.
• Phuc Tran, author, educator, classicist; his recently published memoir, Sigh, Gone, describes his experiences growing up as a Vietnamese, punk-loving kid in Carlisle, Pa. He is also a storyteller, teacher of Latin, and owner of a tattoo shop.  Click here to visit Phuc's website.

Mentioned on today's show: Books for Home.  Click here to learn more.

• Droll Wit And Delightful Details Make Writers & Lovers A Winning Read
• Sigh, Gone Is A Refugee's Chaotic Memoir Of Displacement And Belonging
• In new book-length poem, Wesley McNair takes another deep dive into his family history
• Ted Talk: Does The Subjunctive Have A Dark Side? with Phuc Tran
• Support local book sellers with Bookshop
• I've been reading more dystopian fiction than ever during the corona crisis. Here's why
  
• King's recommendation: The Other Language by Francesca Marciano 
• Tran's recommendation: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• McNair's recommendation: 'We grow accustomed to the Dark' by Emily Dickinson
• Maine Poet Laureate: Stuart Kestenbaum
• How to find time to read

• The Duth House by Ann Patchett
• Closer All the Time written by Jim Nichols
  
• Matt Haig
  
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
  
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 
  
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
  
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
  
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  
• The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler
  
• The Aspern papers by Henry James
  
• Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
  
• The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
  
• peetry by David Whyte
  
• Lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett 
  
• To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
  
• A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Street by James Bowen
  
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton 
  
• Stories For My Sister by Elizabeth Duvivier
  
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
  

• If it Bleeds by Stephen King
• Good Boy - My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Above the Gravel Bar by David S. Cook
• August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm by Barbara Walsh 
• Arundel by Kenneth Roberts
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Modern Country Cooking by Annmarie Ahearn
• The Recipe for Revolution by Carolyn Chute
• Green Seas and White Ice Miriam MacMillan
• Ruth Moore's books
• I Am Cuba; Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution by Matthew Langdon Cost