Buddy Doyle’s book ‘Maine’s Still Reading’ features more than 50 portraits of people in their favorite reading spots, including Tess Gerritsen, Chris Van Dusen, Dr. Nirav Shah and Pat Callaghan.
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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A beach and a book: the ultimate Maine summer pairing
Indulge in summer’s greatest leisure with an upgraded to-be-read stack.
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Two Maine poets trade first-class mail — in verse
Poets Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and Stuart Kestenbaum exchanged poems about daily life through the mail, finding connection through a slower form of communication.
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Take our bookstore tour of western Maine
Rural destination communities are a stronghold for independent bookstores.
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Author Lily King a finalist for international Women’s Prize for Fiction
King is one of six authors up for the honor, for her book “Heart the Lover.”
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Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s new book is set away, for a change
‘The Things We Never Say’ comes out May 5 and is set in a coastal Massachusetts town. Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ one of her Maine-set novels.
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3 Mainers win Guggenheim fellowships
Two faculty members at Bates College in Lewiston and a photographer from Rockport were among this year’s fellows.
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This Maine author’s YA novel could be headed for Broadway
‘Freak the Mighty,’ by Rodman Philbrick of Kittery, was published in 1993. It will make its theatrical debut in Cleveland next month, a test run for Broadway.
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UMaine professor looks for ghosts in Stephen King’s work
In ‘Monsters in the Archives,’ Caroline Bicks chronicles a year in Stephen King’s archives.
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In a new memoir, a UConn sociologist confronts the shortcomings of caregiving
Laura Mauldin will discuss ‘In Sickness and in Health’ at Mechanics’ Hall on April 14.