The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram – the largest newspaper in my native state — is one of the few dailies that still has its own book reviews and book… Read more »
Articles Tagged: book publishing
Nations Apart Book Tour Dates Announced
I’ll be on book tour this fall, speaking about my new book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America, which goes on sale from Viking/Random House Nov. 4. Kirkus… Read more »
The Lobster Coast finally gets an audiobook edition
My cultural history of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, turned 21 this year and, to celebrate it being of drinking age,… Read more »
Republic of Pirates – Now in Romanian
I spent many, many weeks of my early 20s exploring Romania in the late Ceausescu and early post-totalitarian years, a fascinating country that I never got enough of…. Read more »
Introducing 2023 statewide read on Maine Public radio with Morgan Talty and Meghan Gillis
The Maine Humanities Council hosts an annual statewide summer reading program whereby the have a Maine author select two recent Maine titles that, hopefully, tens of thousands will read and… Read more »
2023 Maine Humanities statewide community read picks — from yours truly this year — announced
The Maine Humanities Council organizes an annual statewide community read program — Read ME — with two titles chosen by a Maine author. It was my honor and privilege to… Read more »
American Nations – Now in Chinese
I’m pleased to learn that American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America has been available in Simplified Chinese translation in the world’s largest market… Read more »
Republic of Pirates – now in Japanese
I’m pleased to announce that my history of Blackbeard and the great Caribbean pirate gang, The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and… Read more »
Republic of Pirates, now in Lithuanian
Have you been waiting for a Lithuanian edition of The Republic of Pirates? Of course you have. We all have. And now the waiting is over. Leidykla Briedis, the Vilnius… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.