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Take our bookstore tour of western Maine

by Nicole Carter April 28, 2026May 28, 2026

Rural destination communities are a stronghold for independent bookstores.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Maine, News

Author Lily King a finalist for international Women’s Prize for Fiction

by Ray Routhier April 22, 2026April 23, 2026

King is one of six authors up for the honor, for her book “Heart the Lover.”

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Maine

Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s new book is set away, for a change

by Ray Routhier April 22, 2026April 24, 2026

‘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.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Maine

3 Mainers win Guggenheim fellowships

by Ray Routhier April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

Two faculty members at Bates College in Lewiston and a photographer from Rockport were among this year’s fellows.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Maine, New England

This Maine author’s YA novel could be headed for Broadway

by Ray Routhier April 15, 2026April 23, 2026

‘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.