His career includes the films ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Blazing Saddles’ and the film and Broadway play ‘The Producers.’
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Portland writer collaborates with his ER-doctor cousin on book about COVID-19
‘Every Minute Is a Day’ chronicles the turmoil and challenges of the pandemic as experienced at a hospital in the Bronx. It was published this week by Penguin Random House.
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Portland bookstore joins effort to replace books lost in Frenchville school fire
The book drive is part of a statewide effort involving Maine authors, bookstores and literary groups to replace 9,500 books lost in a blaze last month.
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A visceral account of a refugee’s desperation
Omar El Akkad’s novel about a Syrian boy’s panicked flight is a testament to the impossible predicament confronted by millions of people.
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A dark debut novel follows the fortunes of four intersecting families
A novel in stories, W.S. Winslow’s ‘The Northern Reach’ spans a century in a small Maine town.
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Best-sellers: ‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘The Premonition’
Top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Feast on these lobster novels
Editor’s Note: Given Vinalhaven’s centuries-old tradition of lobstering, we asked Vinalhaven librarian Scott Candage to recommend a few novels about lobstering in Maine. These are his picks, listed in alphabetical order by writer. “Stern Men” by Elizabeth Gilbert, Mariner Books, 2001 edition Yes, that Elizabeth Gilbert. Before she became famous for “Eat, Pray, Love,” Gilbert […]
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Evening with Maine writers will benefit disadvantaged Maine children
An online auction and a reading with Richard Russo and his daughter Kate Russo will raise money for Camp Susan Curtis.
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Bedside table: While we’ve been busy worrying about COVID-19, uh-oh this:
“I just completed the alarming new book ‘Count Down’ by reproductive epidemiologist Shanna H. Swan, PhD, with journalist Stacey Colino. I had heard Dr. Swan on the NPR radio show On Point (you can find it archived). Her interview came on the heels of the news that the 2020 census revealed that from 2010 to […]
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Bedside Table: New biography of famed Maine poet sparks cherished memories
“I selected ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,’ by Nicholas A. Basbanes, from the Kennebunk Free Library during the winter shutdown, not only for a Portland Press Herald write-up, but because it brought back memories of my Dad, a Longfellow scholar, born, raised and schooled in Boston, a few hundred years after […]
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