‘An Unkindness of Magicians’ gets off to a slow start, but finds its footing.
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Happy 70th, Stephen King. (And many more!)
Maine’s master of horror and suspense celebrates his birthday.
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Clinton book on loss debuts with sales of 300,000 copies
‘What Happened’ has the highest opening of any hardcover nonfiction release in five years.
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In Sarah Moriarty’s 1st novel, 4 Maine siblings struggle with adulthood and each other
In ‘North Haven’ 2 brothers and 2 sisters visit their summer home without their parents for the 1st time.
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Seth Rogoff’s 1st novel shows a ‘beguiling’ writer of a book in which nothing is as it seems
‘First, the Raven,’ Rogoff weaves a complex tale that incorporates the real and the fantastic.
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Book review: Black lives mattered in early Maine
Patricia Wall’s carefully researched ‘Lives of Consequence: Blacks in Early Kittery & Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine’ uncovers stories of slaves and free African Americans.
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Book review: Tale of dog and writer goes to unexpected places
The attachment between Eileen Myles and her dog Rosie in ‘Afterglow (a dog memoir)’ is described in moving and atypical ways.
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In a new collection of essays, John McPhee discusses his craft and his times
‘Draft No. 4,’ from the longtime New Yorker staffer and teacher is a collection of essays on the writing process that first appeared in the magazine
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Alex Lake’s ‘Copycat’ has a clever Facebook-based premise
but the creatively plotted thriller stumbles at the big reveal
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Maine author Elaine Ford dies of brain tumor at 78
She was a Guggenheim winner, a Radcliffe graduate, UMaine professor, a mother of five and a practitioner of ‘democratic literature.’