Kang, a poet and novelist, was awarded for books, including ‘The Vegetarian’ and ‘Human Acts,’ that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea’s turbulent history.
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In his last book, a famous newspaper editor paid tribute to the poets he loved
The late Mike Pride, a Concord Monitor editor on the ‘poetry beat,’ describes the lives and works of the New England poets he so deeply admired in ‘Northern Voices.’
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Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on seeing and hearing his words performed
Before a reading in Portland, the author of ‘The Sympathizer’ spoke about the experience of having his work turned into a miniseries and audiobooks.
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‘Shred Sisters’ is the kind of novel readers won’t want to end
Betsy Lerner’s debut is a smart, funny and moving portrait of two very different siblings.
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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Shannon Bowring’s ‘Where the Forest Meets the River’ owes a debt to ‘Winesburg, Ohio’
But the author’s second novel, a sequel to ‘The Road to Dalton’ and likewise set in a small, fictional northern Maine town, is kindlier – and less shocking – than Sherwood Anderson’s American classic.
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In ‘Discipline,’ 3 intertwining stories explore the dual meanings of the word in the title
An art appraiser, a troubled teen boy and the daughter of a famous artist get alternating eras and chapters in writer Debra Spark’s new novel.
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A new novel about Oscar Wilde offers an alternative ending to his story
Louis Bayard’s ‘The Wildes’ reimagines how scandal affected the Irish playwright’s family and how it might have been different.
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What one food writer learned when he moved to France
In ‘A Season for That,’ award-winning food writer Steve Hoffman recounts the six months he and his wife and children spent living abroad.
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How Elizabeth Strout came to bring 3 beloved characters together in ‘Tell Me Everything’
When the author realized Olive Kitteridge, Lucy Barton and Bob Burgess from her previous books were all living in Crosby, Maine, she knew they had to meet.