Earlier this year, DownEast magazine chose 100 books that “every lover of Maine should read.” This idea of “Maine books” has long fascinated me. It is really a question of what Henry Louis Gates calls authenticity, and I wrote about it years ago in an essay called Two Pigs from Maine. When DownEast announced their […]
A few years ago I was visiting the museum of a local Maine historical society. When the docent discovered I worked as an economist, he immediately wanted to show me their collection of early currency that had circulated in the community. His assumption was that an economist would, of course, be interested in money. I […]
For the New Year I have been reading again many of my old favorite works of fiction. Re-reading good books is a pleasure. Included in my list are things like Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief (the great Canadian novel?) and John LeCarre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (every time I read the […]
