Laura Warren is a radiologist in a small coastal Maine hospital. Always overjoyed when cancer isn’t found in her patients, she lives a quiet life of metastasized grief and regret that she hides from everyone, especially her husband, Dan, and Ben and Sally, her teenage son and daughter. Bright, extremely well read and a native […]

Thousands of hours of research give columnist Rosie Schaap stories about being a woman who frequents bars.

Author Robin Ann Rousseau will discuss her new novel, “Portsmouth: A Love Story,” which takes readers on a journey through the main streets and back doors of New Hampshire’s Seacoast, past and present. Meet the ghost of Hannah at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham; walk the beautiful beach at Wallis Sands in Rye; and […]

“Someone — I wish I could remember who — has since described me as ‘a man in the woods with his head full of books, and a man in books with his head full of the woods.’ “ So writes Sidney Lea, Vermont’s current poet laureate. Without sentiment but with a lot of love, his […]

For Victoria Doudera, a detour into selling real estate opened the door that led to writing what’s become a series of mystery books.

A tsunami survivor shares her story about loss and healing in ‘Wave.’

Four years after winning the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for the book “Olive Kitteridge,” Portland native Elizabeth Strout is back. Her latest novel, “The Burgess Boys,” doesn’t disappoint. This post-9/11 story of family and forgiveness, identity and dislocation, has the hallmarks of a classic and the urgency of today’s news. The plot stems from a […]

Award-winning historian, author, former legislator and York native Neil Rolde will talk about the newly updated edition of his book, “York Is Living History.” Originally published 41 years ago, the work features a lively, succinct history of York’s first four centuries, and is chock-full of events, drama and change. Rolde’s latest edition details changes from […]