Justin Torres’ novel ‘Blackouts’ beats out Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’ and 3 other novels for the top fiction prize.
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A new book explains how to read the natural landscape
Step 1, biologist Noah Charney writes in ‘These Trees Tell a Story,’ is to slow down.
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Teju Cole abandons plot and reaches new heights
‘Tremor’ poses existential questions while demonstrating just how different a modern novel can look.
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Bestsellers: ‘Spy Coast,’ ‘Democracy Awakening’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Book talk: Isaac Fitzgerald, author of ‘Dirtbag, Massachusetts’
He’ll be at Longfellow Books on Tuesday.
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Malaga Island-inspired ‘This Other Eden’ is fiction; critics say it revives harmful myths
Paul Harding says his latest novel, up for major awards, is not meant to be historically accurate. But archivists and descendants believe it badly invites inaccurate depictions of the Maine island’s mistreated residents.
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Bestsellers: ‘The Exchange,’ ‘Democracy Awakening’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser’s memoir, ‘The Road Washes Out in Spring,’ was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
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A passionate argument for the necessity of functioning infrastructure
Deb Chachra’s ‘How Infrastructure Works’ is a perfectly timed entreaty to rethink the systems that make modern life possible.