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Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Hotel Nantucket,’ ‘This Will Not Pass’

July 3, 2022July 1, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books and More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Declaration,’ by Sandy Stott

July 3, 2022July 1, 2022

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Prayer for the warblers, dead on my houselot,’ by Katherine Hagopian Berry

June 26, 2022June 24, 2022

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’

June 26, 2022June 24, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Read an excerpt from Morgan Talty’s ‘Night of the Living Rez’

June 26, 2022June 25, 2022

The Levant author’s first book, a collection of short stories, comes out July 8.

Arts & Entertainment

‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55

by Ann Hornaday The Washington Post June 20, 2022June 21, 2022

In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment. Until today. As the movie opens, Nancy is arriving at a featureless hotel room to meet the sex worker she has procured for the evening – a last-ditch […]

Arts & Entertainment