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OFF RADAR: ‘The Oracle Pool’ by Agnes Bushell Another thoughtful, warmly human book, characterized by exceptionally lucid prose, by one of Maine’s best fiction writers By Dana Wilde “The Oracle Pool” by Agnes Bushell; Littoral Books, Portland, Maine, 2020; 238 pages, trade paperback, $20 In Agnes Bushell’s new novel, “The Oracle Pool,” the main character is missing for most of the book. At the outset, Ruth is with a tour group investigating archaeological sites in Turkey. The participants divide out into, roughly, two groups: graduate students acquiring firsthand knowledge,...

OFF RADAR: ‘Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories’ and ‘Cow Palace’ New books by Susan Minot and Anne Britting Oleson By Dana Wilde “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories”  “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” by Susan Minot; Knopf, New York, 2020; 176 pages, hardcover, $25. The spare, journalistic prose style in fiction was more or less invented by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s and ’30s. Brief, straightforward sentences piled up to create a feeling of realistic, no-nonsense toughness. In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s it turned into a preferred style for short fiction ...