The standup comic, essayist and summer Mainer discusses the pleasure/pain equation that defines his life.

In ‘Strange Weather,’ the author uses his formidable narrative skills to tackle the creepy and the weird

When Crystal Perry was stabbed in Bridgton almost 25 years ago, her 12-year-old daughter was just a room away, terror-stricken, hearing her mother’s screams.

He will be interviewed by Slate columnist Laura Miller as part of a new literary festival.

In the memoir ‘A Beautiful Terrible Thing,’ a wife thinks her husband wasn’t just false, but mentally ill.

The former Maine poet laureate writes about his journey from despair to joy.

In ‘Outside is the Ocean’ Matthew Lansburgh charts the lives of a single family over time.