williamlambrechtJun 63 minAdventure 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...
williamlambrechtApr 184 minNew 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...
williamlambrechtMar 273 minNew Bay Books Maryland Writer Series: Lyman HallHall 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...
williamlambrechtFeb 133 minInterview: Poet Kate Lassman. Hoping 'Dawn Anyway' her new book of poems "will mean hope" to readersQ Writers sometimes imagine talking to people as they compose. Who were your imagined readers as you wrote Dawn Anyway? A I don’t...
williamlambrechtJan 162 minInterview: Ruth TicktinRuth Ticktin's new book, Was Am Going — Recollections in Poetry & Flash — is an audacious recounting of her life and ancestry through...
williamlambrechtDec 16, 20216 minThe Enduring Legacy of the Bernie Fowler Wade-InThe headline above appeared on a Bay Weekly story from 2019, one of the many years that the newspaper staffed and publicized the annual...
williamlambrechtDec 9, 20212 minChris Christie’s New Book Gets Jamie Raskin LampoonThe Gridiron Club, which brings together journalists and public figures in Washington for frivolity and fundraising to aid students, has...
williamlambrechtDec 8, 20215 minReview: 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...
williamlambrechtNov 10, 202113 minDelights By the Bucketful in Calvert Library WorkshopsAuthor Ross Gay’s daily dollops of prose became a bestseller and triggered notable flashes of fine writing in a series of workshops at...
williamlambrechtNov 4, 20212 minSecrets of a Russian Chapel RevealedHow did an 80-year-old Russian chapel with stunning iconography inside wind up at a southern Anne Arundel County marina? And who was...
williamlambrechtNov 2, 20211 minFarewell 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...
williamlambrechtOct 18, 20212 minNew Bay Books at the National Oyster Cook-OffDO NOT READ if you are hungry. The Creole Oyster and Artichoke Stew could be tough to hear about. The Fried Maryland Oyster Tortillas...
williamlambrechtOct 11, 20213 minAuthor Interview: Dotty Holcomb DohertyNewly 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...
Sandra MartinOct 10, 20213 minDeath of a ProofreaderThe following piece, an appreciation of Martha Lee Benz, appeared in the October 7-14 issue of Bay Weekly (www.BayWeekly.com), which I...
williamlambrechtSep 29, 20212 minAuthor 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...
Sandra MartinSep 11, 20212 minRemembering 9/11: What I Wrote 20 Years Ago(I wrote this column in Bay Weekly, the newspaper I co-founded, on the morning after 9/11.) Like all else each of us will do in the...
williamlambrechtSep 9, 20214 minAuthor Interview: Carol McCabe BookerBooker’s latest book, Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, the Bay, and the Dream, released this week, tells of the heroes,...
williamlambrechtAug 17, 20211 minFinding delights in our One Maryland/One Book assignmentDelve into a book of essays with something for all in the Calvert Library’s One Book hosting featuring Ross Gay’s fast-seller Book of...
Sandra MartinAug 13, 20214 minA Town in One Man's Image: Gerald Donovan, 1948-2021.Bay Weekly, the newspaper I started some three decades ago, has allowed me to return to write a farewell to Gerald Donovan, long-time...
williamlambrechtMay 19, 20214 minNew Bay Books Interview: Author M.L. FaunceIn her newly published book, My Date With an Oyster and Other Stories of a D.C. Girl Discovering Chesapeake Country, M.L. Faunce captures...