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Tish Rabe's postcards from Sesame Street

 May 17, 2013; Updated: 5:32 pm

Maybe we should just let Tish Rabe's resume speak for itself:
She has penned more than 150 children's books over the past 15 years. She has her own "I Believe Bunny" series, but she has penned books...

Book tip: "The One-Way Bridge"

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:30 pm

Cathie Pelletier
After a few stand-alone novels, Pelletier returns to her fictional town of Mattagash, Maine, for another seriocomic tour-de-force. Along with Fannie Flagg and fellow...

Author Tish Rabe in Mystic

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Tish Rabe knows a little something about writing children's books. Actually, she knows a lot about the subject. She's written more than 150 in all - including the latest Dr. Seuss books and some Curious George tales.

She, of course, penned...

Bank Square Books goes big

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

Indie book store emerges as author destination

Go ahead. Sit down in Mystic's Oyster Club and slurp down a few on the half-shell with your newest pal, the world-famous author. Discuss intricacies in plotting and characterization as you...

Lehane brings ‘Live by Night’ to Groton

 May 13, 2013; Updated: 11:55 am

Not quite two weeks ago in Manhattan, Dennis Lehane's "Live by Night" won the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel - beating out other finalists such as Gillian Flynn, Walter Mosley and Ace Atkins.

Tales of diplomacy at La Grua center

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 2:34 pm

The La Grua Center Lecture Series presents author Nicole Prévost Logan on Saturday, May 18, at 5 p.m.
Logan, an Essex resident, will introduce her memoir "Forever on the Road," which describes...

The art of becoming Edna O’Brien

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 2:32 pm

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Edna O'Brien, who retells her provocative life in "Country Girl," represents a classic...

Books for children - May 12

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 3:54 pm

BOOKS TO BORROW

"Max Disaster #3: Alien Eraser Reveals the Secrets of Evolution" written and illustrated by Marissa Moss, Candlewick, 54 pages

Arts Cafe Mystic welcomes Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Dennis

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

It would take an estimable road crew if poet Carl Dennis traveled to readings carrying all of his awards.

After all, he's been a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize; a Fellowship at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; a...

Items from Hemingway’s Cuba home go to JFK Library

 May 8, 2013; Updated: 4:08 pm

While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the...

Maya Angelou honors mom, grandmother in new book

 May 6, 2013; Updated: 6:36 pm

Writer, actor, dancer. Activist, teacher, composer. In the melange of Maya Angelou's 85 years is also daughter, of two women who deserved one with a good memory.
So Angelou writes in her latest...

Sizemore book details actor’s battle with drugs

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 3:50 pm

"BY SOME MIRACLE I MADE IT OUT OF THERE"
by Tom Sizemore, with Anna David; Atria Books
Sizemore book details actor's battle with drugs

Books for children - May 5

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 3:48 pm

BOOKS TO BORROW

"Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt" by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, Candlewick, 118 pages

Book tip: "The Last Kind Words"

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:23 pm

Tom Piccirilli
Piccirilli is the Stoker-winning and Edgar-nominated author of several impressive works in the thriller and horror fields. In "The Last Kind Words," Terry Rand, a member...

Books for children - April 28

 April 28, 2013; Updated: 1:53 pm

BOOKS TO BORROW

"Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy Lamb/Random House, 166 pages

Hempsteads inspire historian’s dissertation

 April 26, 2013; Updated: 5:04 pm

Folks in New London probably pass the two Colonial-era structures at Hempstead and Jay streets on a daily basis. Some even realize the property is one of those "historical plaque" attractions and contains an actual museum.

Book tip: "Ghostman"

 April 25, 2013; Updated: 2:24 pm

Roger Hobbs
Knopf
Anyone who's ever tried to write fiction will of course hate Hobbs, a ridiculously talented fellow who wrote this...

Digital public library with vast archive opens

 April 22, 2013; Updated: 5:40 pm

Some of the country's top research institutions have combined to launch a massive online archive.
The Digital Public Library of America began beta testing last week, promising a site with millions of...

Books for children - April 21

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

BOOKS TO BORROW
"The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Harcourt, 96 pages
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'Gulp': An unlovely yet fascinating journey through human digestion

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 5:37 pm

Sometime before Mary Roach's new book got the title "Gulp," I like to think, that's what her editor did in mock, cartoonish panic on hearing that the author planned to dive into the human digestive system.

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Book tip: "Six Years"

 April 18, 2013; Updated: 1:55 pm

Harlan Coben
Dutton
Here's the basic outline of a Coben book: Something bad happens; someone goes into hiding; nothing is as it...

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Meredith’s poem remains poignant tribute to ‘Thresher’ crew

 April 15, 2013; Updated: 12:13 pm

Along with a Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a National Book Award, the late Montville poet William Meredith also was known for his bravery as a Navy aviator. He was awarded two Air Medals and flew missions in...

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Wolitzer novel charts lives of 6 teens

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 3:10 pm

A little talent is a dangerous thing. Meg Wolitzer examines the implications of that sad truth in her latest work, a sprawling, marvelously inventive novel that tracks the friendships over nearly four decades of six teenagers who meet in...

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Books for children - April 14

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 3:00 pm

BOOKS TO BORROW
"Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom" written and illustrated by Eric Wight, Simon & Schuster, 90 pages

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Arts Cafe Mystic welcomes poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil

 April 11, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

On Friday, the Arts Cafe Mystic welcomes an amazing poet: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, winner of the Balcones Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and author of the collections "Lucky Fish," "Miracle Fruit" and "At the Drive-In...

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