Books - Portland Press Herald

Monica Wood takes ‘How to Read a Book’ on a tour of small-town Maine

by Ray Routhier September 18, 2024September 20, 2024

After a delay in the novel’s release, the Portland author was looking for a way to reinvigorate her excitement about it. She’s been finding it in little libraries throughout the state.

Books, Lewiston-Auburn

Bates College lecturer on the longlist for National Book Award

by Steve Collins September 16, 2024September 17, 2024

Writer Jessica Anthony said she’s ‘startled and shocked, but thrilled.’

Arts & Entertainment, Books

The last witnesses of the Hiroshima bombing speak out

by Karin Tanabe Special to The Washington Post September 15, 2024September 11, 2024

In a new book, ‘Hiroshima,’ M.G. Sheftall interviews the youngest survivors of the 1945 attack, who share stories of what they saw and about their lives since.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’

September 15, 2024September 11, 2024

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Maine

Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is Oprah’s Book Club pick

by Ray Routhier September 10, 2024September 11, 2024

The novel marks the first time that 3 of Strout’s most beloved characters – Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess – fully interact with each other in the fictional coastal Maine town of Crosby.