The year-old publication, styled after newspapers, has been amassing a following through copies placed in businesses around the city.
Books
Read ‘Flow into Girl,’ a poem by Lukcia Patricia Sullivan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
‘Heart the Lover’ delivers a compelling, sensitive story about first love and its after effects
Lily King’s newest novel revisits key characters from an earlier work.
‘Queen Esther’ isn’t a ‘Cider House Rules’ sequel, but it’s something
John Irving’s new novel about the son of a Jewish au pair is quite literally all over the place.
Meet a Peaks Island artist and his ‘Wicked’ work
Douglas Smith illustrated the original ‘Wicked’ novel in 1995 and has done new art for a special edition timed to the release of the movie ‘Wicked: For Good.’
A fraught mother-son relationship is at the heart of Jason Brown’s new memoir
But in ‘Character Witness,’ the Hallowell native also explores addiction, anxiety and how the past can cloud the present.
Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘We Survived the Night’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
She found an old photo, then reimagined her grandmother’s life
With ‘Indignity,’ Lea Ypi rescues her Albanian forebear, who grew up in the Ottoman Empire, from the flattening bureaucratic archives.
Maine’s Carnegie libraries get a gift in celebration of American independence
More than 1,000 Carnegie libraries across the U.S., including 17 in Maine, will receive the money to mark the country’s 250th birthday.
A new stamp honors Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett
The South Berwick native is best known for her 1896 novel ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs.’