Books
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2020
A flawed protagonist searches for meaning while on a wacky journey
In 'Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?' novelist and Bowdoin professor Brock Clarke follows his hero on a dizzying, unpredictable and antic trip through Europe.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
Sonny Mehta, literary tastemaker who long reigned at Knopf, dies at 77
On his watch, six of the publishing house's writers won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
Cynthia Anderson's "Home Now" offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
T.S. Eliot’s letters to muse will be unveiled after 60 years
Students, researchers and scholars can read the correspondence at Princeton University Library starting Thursday.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Barack Obama reveals his favorite books of 2019
The former president's annual list includes titles from history, economics, literature and even some choices for sports fans.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
‘This Is Happiness’ a tale of a tiny corner of Ireland left behind by the modern world
Niall Williams' characters are the story, which is told through the eyes of 17-year-old transplant Noel Crowe.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
A new collection of short stories adeptly showcases Maine
Littoral Books' latest, 'North by Northeast: New Short Fiction by Writers from Maine and New England,' casts a wide net, from familiar locations to the state's legendary fog.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2019
Elisabeth Sifton, revered book editor and publisher, dies at 80
The mother of a Maine man also embarked on her own literary odyssey, writing about 'The Serenity Prayer,' attributed to her own father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Johanna Lindsey, master of romance novels, dies at 67
She sold more than 60 million copies in at least 12 languages – a book every eight seconds, Avon calculated in 1993.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but 'The Light in the Piazza' was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
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