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March 27, 2011

Book Review: Conley chronicles bumpy road trip to Beijing

Some books pull you into their orbit, taking you to another world. Susan Conley’s vivid memoir, “The Foremost Good Fortune,” is a case in point. It chronicles her family’s move in 2007 from Portland to Beijing, China, where her husband, Tony, has accepted a job. It also records Conley’s firsthand encounter with breast cancer in […]
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March 27, 2011

Signings, etc.

JAMES L. NELSON Maine-based historian and novelist James L. Nelson will talk about the Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the subjects of his recent book “With Fire and Sword.” The book is about the early days of the American Revolution, culminating in the Battle of Bunker Hill. The talk and signing is being held […]
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March 27, 2011

AIRE presents ‘Brendan’ for spring show

The American Irish Repertory Ensemble returns to the stage for its spring show, “Brendan,” by Boston playwright Ronan Noone. The show opens Thursday and runs through April 16 in the studio theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. “Brendan” is a comedy about the life of an Irish immigrant in Boston. The title character […]
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March 27, 2011

Books: From lessons learned in the potato fields

Shonna Milliken Humphrey grew up in Aroostook County without a writer for a role model. When she was 11, she signed up for a writing workshop for smart kids. It was then, for the first time, she thought to herself, “Maybe I can do this.” Now, at age 37, she has written her first novel. […]
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March 27, 2011

2011 Festival of the Book

This year's gathering at USM is, first, and foremost, about face time – "a chance to interact" for writers and readers.

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March 27, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts, and objects created to assuage grief, memorialize the dead, and remind viewers of religious truths drawn from the museum’s collections, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Noon to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. “The Lay of the Land,” […]
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March 27, 2011

Movies: There really was a ‘Lincoln Lawyer’

WASHINGTON – Michael Connelly was a cops reporter for about a dozen years, most notably with the Los Angeles Times. He has sold 43 million of his 23 crime-based novels around the world since hanging up his press card nearly 20 years ago. Still, he has found some journalistic habits hard to break, such as […]
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March 27, 2011

Society Notebook: Women’s day

An Emerge Maine benefit aims to help the group dedicated to preparing women to seek a greater role in public life.
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March 27, 2011

Books: Yankee finds a niche in the Wild West

Christopher Corbett seems like an unlikely candidate to be a writer of Old West stories. He grew up in Waterville, and despite traveling widely, has spent most of his life entrenched in the Northeast. But Corbett is a journalist, and he has always had a nose for a good story. In Americana lore, there is […]
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March 27, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

WEDNESDAY • Blue Wrap Project Runway, 6 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Enjoy music, drinks and food and watch a fashion show that reuses a disposable hospital product. Proceeds benefit Partners for World Health. $50. No tickets at door. 885-1011. FRIDAY • 29th Annual Spring for the Kids Auction, 5 p.m., Boys and Girls […]

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