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American lit: How Edison changed the culture
The national character and its bold embrace of innovation found its spark in the birth of electricity, Ernest Freeberg’s new book contends.
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Book Review: Poet’s work shares how torn family shaped him
Near the end of his extraordinary memoir, “The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry,” award-winning Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair states, “Poets are menders of broken things.” McNair is noted for his poetry about “broken New England” and the brokenness of his childhood, in having a father who abandoned the family and […]
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Signings, etc.: W. Jeffrey Bolster
Professor W. Jeffrey Bolster will speak about his book, “The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail.” Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival and those people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a […]
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Book Review: From Salem’s lot, a dark and compelling new mystery
Maine has a fascinating new writer in Kieran Shields, whose dense and intriguing new novel, “The Truth of All Things,” is no airy take-to-the-beach fling.
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Journey Into Writing announces winners
Two Searsport juniors and a Bonny Eagle junior win $2,500 each for their entries in the Maine Community College System writing contest.
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Ray Bradbury, ‘Fahrenheit 451’ author, dies at 91
Bradbury transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and his vision of a high-tech, book-burning future.
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Book Review: ‘Arcadia’ a fictional romp in author’s peerless fashion
Once in a great while, a book comes along that is so strikingly singular yet so pleasingly spot-on, it deserves a “Hurrah!” before anything else. So “Hurrah!” to Agnes Bushell’s “Death in Arcadia,” a detective novel and fictional romp through Portland’s contemporary social strata, centered on what is undoubtedly the Maine College of Art. Although […]
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Book Review: Outlasting hardship, bloodshed for rebirth
Kambri Crews writes about her rise from a troubled Texas family to a stable life.
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Signings, etc.: Sarah Fiorini
Sarah Fioroni will be talking about and signing her new book, “A Family Farm in Tuscany.” Fioroni has been a chef, cooking instructor, sommelier, and manager of her family’s organic farm near historic San Gimignano, in Italy. The book includes family stories, traditions and recipes. WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, […]