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BILL ROORBACH

After reading the cover hype about novelist Stuart Woods’ nonfiction “Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic,” I almost took a pass on reviewing it. Consider this flap boast: The author “had never owned more than a ten foot plywood dinghy, when he decided to take on one of the […]

Tales of misfortune and descriptive writing drive Elizabeth Black’s novel.

About a year ago, a friend pulled me aside and claimed that Montsweag Roadhouse served the best fish tacos anywhere. This kind of comment requires investigation. And so my frequent drive-bys finally became a stop-in-and-dine. From the outside, Montsweag Roadhouse looks the same as it did 30 or so years ago, when it was Montsweag […]

Print shows, for some reason, are dotting the Maine landscape. No one has been more active in mounting print shows recently than Bruce Brown, curator emeritus of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. His “Prints: Breaking Boundaries” at the Portland Public Library is a good show. But it’s also an important show, although a casual […]