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National Oyster Cook-Off: A Surprised Winner and Final Tally
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Their names inspire poetry. Billionaire Oyster Puffs. Creamy Tuscan Style Oysters. Crispy Fried Oysters and Cornbread...

williamlambrecht
Oct 18, 20223 min read
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In Calvert County, Hulbert Footner Has His Own Room
Big turnouts for Calvert Historical Society's gatherings to honor one of the Chesapeake region’s great authors. Ask a Marylander in...

williamlambrecht
Sep 27, 20224 min read
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The Winner: George Miller's Poem About a Special Boat
On a steamy Sunday at Bayside HIstory Museum in North Beach, New Bay Books announced the winner of New Bay Books' Inaugural Writers on...

williamlambrecht
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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New Bay Books Interview: Cartoonist Jim Toomey, Author of 'Family Afloat'
If you’re a sailor or just a dreamer, you’ve imagined leaving it all behind, anchoring in crystalline waters, perhaps snorkeling off...

williamlambrecht
Aug 30, 20228 min read
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New Bay Books Interview: Jellyfish Author Mark McCaig
Editor's note: Flash fiction is a highly stylized writing burst — a few hundred words maybe — typically describing the complex and often...

williamlambrecht
Jul 21, 20223 min read
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Adventure in Tragedy: 'A Darkness Lit By Heroes'
Doug Ammons, ranked in the 1990s by Outside Magazine as one of the world’s Ten Great Adventurers, has lived by this standard: “I tried to...

williamlambrecht
Jun 6, 20223 min read
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New Bay Books Review: Will Hurd's 'American Reboot'
I’ve seen a fair amount of Will Hurd, a Black former GOP congressman and first time author from Texas, a politician likely positioning...

williamlambrecht
Apr 18, 20224 min read
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New Bay Books Maryland Writer Series: Lyman Hall
Hall published “The Stewards of West River” at age 91. He’s got two books in the works. CHESTERTOWN, MD — As a boy, Lyman Dean Hall...

williamlambrecht
Mar 27, 20223 min read
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Interview: Poet Kate Lassman. Hoping 'Dawn Anyway' her new book of poems "will mean hope" to readers
Q Writers sometimes imagine talking to people as they compose. Who were your imagined readers as you wrote Dawn Anyway? A I don’t...

williamlambrecht
Feb 13, 20223 min read
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Interview: Ruth Ticktin
Ruth Ticktin's new book, Was Am Going — Recollections in Poetry & Flash — is an audacious recounting of her life and ancestry through...

williamlambrecht
Jan 16, 20222 min read
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The Enduring Legacy of the Bernie Fowler Wade-In
The headline above appeared on a Bay Weekly story from 2019, one of the many years that the newspaper staffed and publicized the annual...

williamlambrecht
Dec 16, 20216 min read
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Chris Christie’s New Book Gets Jamie Raskin Lampoon
The Gridiron Club, which brings together journalists and public figures in Washington for frivolity and fundraising to aid students, has...

williamlambrecht
Dec 9, 20212 min read
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Review: Hell With the Lid Off —"The Discovery of a Lifetime"
Editor's Note: Read what Daily Montanan Editor-in-Chief Darrell Ehrlick writes about Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana, New Bay...

williamlambrecht
Dec 8, 20215 min read
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Delights By the Bucketful in Calvert Library Workshops
Author Ross Gay’s daily dollops of prose became a bestseller and triggered notable flashes of fine writing in a series of workshops at...

williamlambrecht
Nov 10, 202113 min read
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Secrets of a Russian Chapel Revealed
How did an 80-year-old Russian chapel with stunning iconography inside wind up at a southern Anne Arundel County marina? And who was...

williamlambrecht
Nov 4, 20212 min read
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Farewell M.L. Faunce; Chronicled Chesapeake Bay Life.
New Bay Books is sad to announce the passing of one of our authors, M.L. Faunce, who died on Halloween, in Gulfport, Fla., after a...

williamlambrecht
Nov 2, 20211 min read
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New Bay Books at the National Oyster Cook-Off
DO NOT READ if you are hungry. The Creole Oyster and Artichoke Stew could be tough to hear about. The Fried Maryland Oyster Tortillas...

williamlambrecht
Oct 18, 20212 min read
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Author Interview: Dotty Holcomb Doherty
Newly released Buoyant: What Held Us Up When Our Bodies Let Us Down, is a success — judging by orders we've received from 27 states and...

williamlambrecht
Oct 11, 20213 min read
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Death of a Proofreader
The following piece, an appreciation of Martha Lee Benz, appeared in the October 7-14 issue of Bay Weekly (www.BayWeekly.com), which I...
Sandra Martin
Oct 10, 20213 min read
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Author Carol Booker tells a Russian princess 'fairy tale'
Calvert County history devotees gathered at Jefferson Patterson Park recently saw up close why Carol McCabe Booker is winning praise for...

williamlambrecht
Sep 29, 20212 min read
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