Joseph Loughlin and Kate Flora team up again to explore the red-hot-button issue of police shootings.
Books
Excerpts from Sarah Perry’s ‘After the Eclipse’
In her newly published memoir, Perry has stitched together details of the horrible night in 1994 when her mother was murdered in their Bridgton home.
A Maine fisherman encounters a porpoise In ‘The Old Mainer and the Sea,’ and much unfolds
The title alludes to Hemingway, but this beautifully illustrated and told children’s book story stands on its own
Interview with John Hodgman: Sometimes, the truth hurts – or it makes you laugh
The standup comic, essayist and summer Mainer discusses the pleasure/pain equation that defines his life.
Four short novels add up to one great escape for Joe Hill
In ‘Strange Weather,’ the author uses his formidable narrative skills to tackle the creepy and the weird
In haunting new memoir, a daughter casts light on her mother’s Maine murder
When Crystal Perry was stabbed in Bridgton almost 25 years ago, her 12-year-old daughter was just a room away, terror-stricken, hearing her mother’s screams.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem headlines new Word festival in Blue Hill
He will be interviewed by Slate columnist Laura Miller as part of a new literary festival.
He’s got cheating ways, sure, but is he actually a psychopath?
In the memoir ‘A Beautiful Terrible Thing,’ a wife thinks her husband wasn’t just false, but mentally ill.
Wesley McNair reads from his new book of poems
The former Maine poet laureate writes about his journey from despair to joy.
Debut short story collection links sad, funny, annoying, flawed characters
In ‘Outside is the Ocean’ Matthew Lansburgh charts the lives of a single family over time.