E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
Nicholson BakerA bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
Nicholson BakerJust as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.
Nicholson BakerI woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
Nicholson Baker