‘At First Light,’ a collaboration of heavy hitters in Maine’s arts community, offers glimpses of these ‘sanctuaries of the everyday.’
Books
Brockmeier depicts 100 possibilities of afterlife
Each of the stories in Kevin Brockmeier’s story collection can be read in less than 2 distressing minutes.
Bedside Table: Why don’t we know their names? We’ll give you one guess
“I have been reading about women achieving success despite the obstacles that were supposed to hold them back – women who were told they wouldn’t succeed because they were women, books such as “Fly Girls,” “Code Girls,” “Rise of the Rocket Girls, “Code Name: Lise,” “D-Day Girls” and “A Woman of No Importance.” My current […]
Bedside Table: Moving and profound, this book’s time is now (and always)
“I have the most amazing book to recommend. I have been following Mark Nepo for years now after seeing him interviewed. I bought his “The Book of Awakening” at that time and have since given out 40 copies. The book is one very moving and profound paragraph for each day of the year and absolutely […]
In 1939, Portland chef George Miller was crowned Maine’s Chowder King
And that’s just for starters. More than 80 years later, his descendents tell all about Miller’s glorious victory for New England-style clam chowder.
In Russell Banks’ ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean
The novel shifts in time as protagonist Leo Fife, a fictional Canadian Ken Burns, assesses his past harshly.
A trio of Maine-themed books to celebrate Maine’s 200th birthday-plus-one
Chickadees, Chester and chowder – all present and accounted for.
Norton Juster, author of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ dies at 91
Juster also wrote such favorites as ‘The Dot and the Line’ and ‘Stark Naked.’
Season brings three new books from Maine poets
Colby professor Arisa White, Portland poet laureate Linda Aldrich and Maine Writers and Publishers director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc all have new works.
Anne Lamott reflects on the popularity of her spiritual books and how she became ‘a pretty decent writer’
Lamott’s latest, ‘Dusk Night Dawn,’ satisfies literary as well as spiritual tastes.