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Portland bookstore joins effort to replace books lost in Frenchville school fire

by Rachel Ohm August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

The book drive is part of a statewide effort involving Maine authors, bookstores and literary groups to replace 9,500 books lost in a blaze last month.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

A visceral account of a refugee’s desperation

by Ron Charles The Washington Post August 1, 2021July 27, 2021

Omar El Akkad’s novel about a Syrian boy’s panicked flight is a testament to the impossible predicament confronted by millions of people.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

A dark debut novel follows the fortunes of four intersecting families

by Michael Berry August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

A novel in stories, W.S. Winslow’s ‘The Northern Reach’ spans a century in a small Maine town.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-sellers: ‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘The Premonition’

August 1, 2021July 28, 2021

Top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Food

Feast on these lobster novels

by Scott R. Candage August 1, 2021August 2, 2021

Editor’s Note: Given Vinalhaven’s centuries-old tradition of lobstering, we asked Vinalhaven librarian Scott Candage to recommend a few novels about lobstering in Maine. These are his picks, listed in alphabetical order by writer. “Stern Men” by Elizabeth Gilbert, Mariner Books, 2001 edition Yes, that Elizabeth Gilbert. Before she became famous for “Eat, Pray, Love,” Gilbert […]

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Evening with Maine writers will benefit disadvantaged Maine children

by Peggy Grodinsky August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

An online auction and a reading with Richard Russo and his daughter Kate Russo will raise money for Camp Susan Curtis.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside table: While we’ve been busy worrying about COVID-19, uh-oh this:

August 1, 2021July 27, 2021

“I just completed the alarming new book ‘Count Down’ by reproductive epidemiologist Shanna H. Swan, PhD, with journalist Stacey Colino. I had heard Dr. Swan on the NPR radio show On Point (you can find it archived). Her interview came on the heels of the news that the 2020 census revealed that from 2010 to […]

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside Table: New biography of famed Maine poet sparks cherished memories

July 25, 2021July 19, 2021

“I selected ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,’ by Nicholas A. Basbanes, from the Kennebunk Free Library during the winter shutdown, not only for a Portland Press Herald write-up, but because it brought back memories of my Dad, a Longfellow scholar, born, raised and schooled in Boston, a few hundred years after […]