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'Life of a Newspaper': Sandra Olivetti Martin at Captain Avery Museum’s Winter Series
Chesapeake regional book publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin recalled the early days of nearly 30-year-old Bay Weekly, sold by her family...

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Feb 9, 20232 min read


Soups, Stews & Stories: At Book Party, Secrets of Roux Revealed
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Schneider knew the path to a rich roux for folks who mix fat and flour in the quest for luscious...

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Jan 31, 20232 min read


Marvel Tragedy Survivor Returns for 'Deadly Gamble'
The sailing schooner had broken apart, lashed by Hurricane Connie's furious winds and laden with water from above and below. Cast into...

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Jan 16, 20233 min read


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...

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Oct 18, 20223 min read


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...

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Sep 27, 20224 min read


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...

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Aug 31, 20222 min read


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...

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Aug 30, 20228 min read


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...

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Jul 21, 20223 min read


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...

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Jun 6, 20223 min read


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...

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Apr 18, 20224 min read


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...

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Mar 27, 20223 min read


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...

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Feb 13, 20223 min read


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...

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Jan 16, 20222 min read


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...

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Dec 16, 20216 min read


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...

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Dec 9, 20212 min read


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...

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Dec 8, 20215 min read


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...

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Nov 10, 202113 min read


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...

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Nov 4, 20212 min read


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...

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Nov 2, 20211 min read


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...

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Oct 18, 20212 min read
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