Couples in various stages of involvement are at the center of many of the beautifully distilled tales in ‘Why I Don’t Write.
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Bedside table: The interlocking stories in ‘The Overstory’ form a paean to trees
‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers. W.W. Norton & Company. Paperback, 512 pages, $18.95
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The joy, commitment and hard work behind a friendship ‘too big to fail’
‘Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close’ gives friendship the same respect as society normally reserves for marriage and family.
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Bedside Table: A stack of Bruce Robert Coffin mysteries
This reader read the first Detective Byron mystery by the local writer, and couldn’t stop.
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‘Intimations’: Exquisite essays wring truths from the pandemic
Zadie Smith’s slim but amply perceptive volume is a kind of balm in an anxious year.
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A Vietnamese boy grows up in a small Pennsylvania town and searches for his place in the world
In Phuc Tran’s memoir “Sigh, Gone,” books, punk rock and encouraging teachers all help him to eventually flourish.
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Going home to a papermaking past, Maine native embarks on a deeply personal journey
Kerri Arsenault, who grew up in Rumford-Mexico, draws attention to a Faustian bargain with her investigative memoir.
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Foreword of Michael Cohen’s book: Trump ‘wouldn’t mind if I was dead’
Michael Cohen’s memoir about President Trump will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news Thursday to The Associated Press.
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Bedside Table: A Maine Spiritualist camp drew thousands in its early 20th-century heyday
“The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna” by Mira Ptacin. 218 pages. Liveright/Norton. $26.95
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In this moving debut novel, Maine writer Betty Culley tells a tangled tale in free verse
Set in the aftermath of a terrible gun accident, ‘Three Things I Know are True” revolves around 15-year-old Liv, her immobile brother, his best friend and an upcoming trial about who is at fault for the tragedy.