‘The Great Gatsby’ will enter public domain when copyright ends in 2021

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Published
January 22, 2020

‘The Great Gatsby’ will enter public domain when copyright ends in 2021

That means anyone will be allowed to publish the book or make it into a movie, opera or Broadway musical.
Published
January 19, 2020

Joe Hill proves his writing chops once again

'Full Throttle' pays homage to past science fiction, fantasy and horror writers, yet the stories speak to today.
Published
January 19, 2020

As scholars tried to flee the Nazis, U.S. universities closed their doors

Fewer than 1,000 academics received non-quota visas between 1933 and the outbreak of World War II. The fate of those left behind? More often than not, deportation and murder.
Published
January 12, 2020

This 17th-century fur trader led a wild and shameless life

"Bush Runner," by Mark Bourrie, tells the real-life story of adventurer Pierre-Esprit Radisson, for whom the Radisson hotel chain is named. It's a truth-is-stranger than fiction tale, think shipwrecks, pirates and cannibalism.
Published
January 12, 2020

Mysterious deaths set the latest Michael Cassidy thriller in motion

Filled with impeccable period 1950s detail, 'Night Watch' is populated with Nazis, CIA operatives and an unknown psychopath. David C. Taylor's detective definitely has his hands full.
Published
January 6, 2020

Author series in Westbrook connects writers with readers

The publisher of Moon Pie Press arranges regular readings at Stroudwater Lodge.
Published
January 5, 2020

Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history

Author Kristen Richardson draws on her own personal history, too.
Published
January 5, 2020

A flawed protagonist searches for meaning while on a wacky journey

In 'Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?' novelist and Bowdoin professor Brock Clarke follows his hero on a dizzying, unpredictable and antic trip through Europe.
Published
January 1, 2020

Sonny Mehta, literary tastemaker who long reigned at Knopf, dies at 77

On his watch, six of the publishing house's writers won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Published
January 1, 2020

New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community

Cynthia Anderson's "Home Now" offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.