The current top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
2021
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charmer about friendship and the literary life
‘Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden’ whisks readers to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, in the company of a delightful gang of scholars
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: EqualityMaine turns annual gala into outdoor festival
Before the Aug. 28 awards ceremony, guests mingled and sampled food outside at Thompson’s Point.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
Dairy farmers have an opportunity, if only the state would help
Don’t milk cows. Grow plant-based proteins instead. The switch would benefit farmers, farm towns and the Maine economy, but government assistance is needed.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now her moment has finally come.
When an outspoken Howard University law student named Pauli Murray helped lead a group of students into Little Palace Cafeteria, a restaurant on Washington D.C.’s U Street, one spring afternoon, they didn’t come expecting lunch. It was 1943, and even in a neighborhood known for its flourishing Black businesses, vibrant theater scene (a.k.a. Black Broadway) […]
Posted inHealth, Maine
Antibody treatment emerges as new weapon in pandemic, but supplies are limited
While Maine hospitals have expanded use of the medication significantly in recent months, there is still not enough of it to fully meet the demand.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
There was no late-night talk show guest quite like Norm Macdonald
Wearing his signature mischievous grin, Norm Macdonald tells Conan O’Brien the joke. The setup is simple: A moth walks into a podiatrist’s office. The journey is anything but. As O’Brien looks increasingly ready to rip his red hair out by the handful, Macdonald’s moth tells of his boss, “Gregory Olinivich,” “who knows he has power […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: These campers, perforce, are rolling stones
“Anyone who has ever vacationed in a camper or motor home will enjoy reading ‘Nomadland.’ The author, journalist Jessica Bruder, followed campers who lived in their vehicles full time. There are two kinds of people who travel in campers, she writes, the middle class and the Nomads. Full-timers are the new Nomads. They travel from […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Maine should add COVID vaccine to mandate list
Maine already has mandated shots for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio and varicella for students in pre-K through grade 12. These are mandatory for obvious reasons, since these illnesses wracked up major death and misery on the world in the past. The COVID-19 virus is now the new major illness that requires a […]
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Hunting: Make a plan for just what you hope to harvest this fall
Hunters have extra chances for success this season, but don’t be too patient. As many guides will say, don’t pass up a deer on the first day that you’d shoot on the last.