Comic Arts Maine Portland, which began in 2025, will feature exhibitors, workshops and panels with comics creators on Saturday.
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Portland teacher announced as new Maine poet laureate
Dawn Potter, of Portland, was named Friday as the seventh person to fill the role, which was created in 1995.
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‘All friendships are unusual,’ says Maine writer of the relationship centered in her debut memoir
In ‘Slow Motion,’ Jennifer Dupree tells the story of her decades-long friendship with Marcel, a man living with cerebral palsy in Maine.
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Read the poem ‘Path of Totality,’ by Kate Kearns
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who shared his work with Maine neighbors, dies at 80
Kidder, who died Tuesday in Boston, had a summer home in South Bristol and often did readings and events in Maine.
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Maine historian uncovers the legacy of a forgotten female sea captain
Historian Tilar J. Mazzeo shares Mary Ann Patten’s story in ‘The Sea Captain’s Wife.’
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Stephen King’s ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ gets Indigenous perspective from Maine educator
John Bear Mitchell, of the Penobscot Nation, works with Hollywood to incorporate Indigenous culture in TV and film. His current project is the HBO horror series.
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Surviving Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness takes on new meaning in blockbuster novel
Journalist Kat Rosenfield’s novel, ‘How to Survive in the Woods,’ is a thriller for the post-#MeToo era.
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In an award-winning debut novel, secrets propel a clever new mystery set on a Maine island
Jennifer K. Breedlove investigates the inexplicable behavior of others in ‘Murder Will Out,’ which won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award.
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Warren fly-fisher’s new novel explores ecology and changing tides
In his fourth novel, ‘Rolling Back the River,’ Paul Guernsey angles for his big catch.