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Retired academics – devoted spouses and lovers of poetry – reveal a sinister side in Stephen King’s latest

The shy but tough Holly Gibney finally takes the lead, and the title, in ‘Holly.’

A new Mike Bowditch mystery from Paul Doiron, and vintage and contemporary photographs from historian Richard Shaw

by HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

they call the ChatGPT program a ‘massive commercial enterprise’ that is reliant upon ‘systematic theft on a mass scale.’

Each year, the festival highlights a handful of books to share with young Maine readers. Here are this year’s featured stories.

by Genanne Walsh September 10, 2023September 8, 2023

A complex portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay emerges from two new collections of her letters and diaries.

by Bill Bushnell September 8, 2023September 7, 2023

A fascinating memoir from a wildlife biologist, and a new murder mystery by Lee Hollis

The poems in Jean Anne Feldeisen’s first collection might best be characterized as reflections on uncertainty.

by Josh Christie August 26, 2023August 25, 2023

These selections range from poetry to horror, cookbook to fiction.

by Bill Bushnell August 25, 2023August 24, 2023

Essays on desire and consumption by Katy Kelleher, and a complex and provocative story by Scot Lehigh

Calder will give a discussion and read from her new book “Comfort is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine,” in Winthrop