Thursday, February 25th at 7 pm
DWAYNE RAYMOND
author of
Mornings with Mailer:
A Recollection of Friendship

At the age of 80, venerable literary figure Norman Mailer met a young writer, Dwayne Raymond, moonlighting as a waiter in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and hired him as his personal assistant. In the new book, Mornings with Mailer, Raymond recounts the four years they spent working together before Mailer’s death in 2007.

The author of more than 40 books, Norman Mailer was one of our country’s most distinguished writers. He was twice awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, first for The Armies of the Night (1968), and later for The Executioner’s Song (1979), and his first novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) was named one of the best 100 English language novels by the Modern Library.

Thursday, March 11th at 7 pm
THOMAS BOHAN
author of
Crashes and Collapses

In his new book, Crashes and Collapses, physicist and forensic scientist Thomas Bohan explores the science behind crime scene and accident investigations. How can you recreate a car crash based on the tire marks? Who's to blame for a construction crane collapsing, or a New York subway accident? Bohan shows how scientists analyze these precarious situations, and how much they can determine from the limited data available. Along with Bohan's clear and systematic explanations, he also provides a history of forensic science and numerous sidebars and diagrams to help explain important terms and ideas. For the mathematically inclined, he even walks you through the calculations used to reach his conclusions. Whether you're a CSI fan, an amateur physicist, or simply a curious bystander, Crashes and Collapses provides insight and understanding into the everyday world.

"...[an] interesting book...an ideal primer for teachers, aspiring forensic scientists and engineers, as well as members of the general public..."
- Journal of Forensic Sciences

"Bohan uses real-life and fictionalized cases to explain how the country's super sleuths use principles of science – some going back to Archimedes and Kepler – to get to the core of seemingly impossible problems."
- Portland Press Herald

Thomas L. Bohan, Ph.D., received his degree in physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He is currently the director of MTC Forensics in Portland, Maine. He has published articles in refereed physics and forensic science journals and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Bohan is also president-elect of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a board member of Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board. He lives in Peaks Island, Maine.