I live on Chebeague Island, which is blessed to be littered with books. This summer, they were put to good use.
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Posted inTimes Record
Book Notes: ‘Sparrow Being Sparrow’ a cat-filled lesson in honesty
My husband’s grandmother loved cats, particularly the kind that slunk up to the bowl outside her kitchen door, where she scraped her dinner scraps. She lived in the same house in a quiet Maine town for seven decades, feeding the neighborhood felines until well past the age of 100, when she died peacefully at home. […]
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Nation & World
Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92
Gottlieb had one of the greatest runs of any editor after World War II and helped shape the modern publishing canon.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine
Kittery author wins Children’s History Book Prize
Rodman Philbrick received the award from the New York Historical Society for ‘We Own the Sky,’ set in Maine in 1920.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Late-night reading
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Clarence Page: The age-old trick of ‘passing’– fiction writer disgraced by lies about himself
After Hache Carrillo died, his friends, readers and husband learned that almost everything about him was made up – even his ‘Cuban’ heritage.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Amina Luqman-Dawson’s ‘Freewater’ wins John Newbery Medal
The middle-grade novel about a secret community of formerly enslaved people has won the Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Bookstores are a refuge for freedom of speech while censors wage battle
If you make yourself available to the experience, a bookstore is a magical space, a site of resistance against ‘the attention economy.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: What gives ‘Charlotte’s Web’ such formidable staying power?
Seventy years after its publication, E.B. White’s little book of wisdom continues to enthrall readers – children and adults alike.