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Bedside table: A terrific novel and a terrific memoir, both about life in Maine

January 31, 2021January 26, 2021

This Mainer is reading, and enjoying, books by Maine literary royalty – Monica Wood and Richard Russo.

Alaskan illustrator becomes first Native American to win Caldecott Medal

by HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

Michaela Goade won the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children’s picture story, for ‘We Are Water Protectors.’

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Do This

Susan Conley comes home to Maine with latest novel ‘Landslide’

by Bob Keyes January 25, 2021January 20, 2021

The Maine writer set the novel in fictional Sewall, based on Phippsburg.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

A spendy restaurant in Maine is the backdrop for love, loss and strife in Anne Britting Oleson’s latest novel

by Frank O Smith January 24, 2021January 23, 2021

As the characters in ‘Cow Palace’ attempt to commit to one another, they reveal much about the human heart.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

For a multiracial writer, a life marked by earthquakes and other upheavals

by Gabrielle Bellot Special To The Washington Post January 24, 2021January 20, 2021

Neither chronological nor straightforward, Nadia Owusu’s new memoir evokes how it feels to constantly search for a place to call home.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside Table: This story of the Great Migration makes compelling reading

January 24, 2021January 20, 2021

The ripple effects of the history writer Isabel Wilkerson’s relates are still very much with us.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Ed Tarkington echoes ‘Gatsby’ with a gentle Southern drawl

by Bethanne Patrick Special To The Washington Post January 17, 2021January 11, 2021

At the end of the year, the copyright on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” expired, so anyone can now use its characters and particulars to fashion their own version, much as Jean Rhys did in “Wide Sargasso Sea,” based on Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.” That’s why we just saw the release of “Nick,” by […]