A powerful new novel by award-winning Maine author and poet William Carpenter, and Gretchen Legler’s essays about crafting a sustainable rural life
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A forgotten 19th-century Maine comic writer gets his day in the sun
Lots of fascinating material in ‘Diggio, Haybis Korpus & E Plewrisy Unicorn!’ if you can get past the fact that the imaginary Ethan Spike was a ‘reprehensible bigot.’
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OFF RADAR: ‘Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands’
A book of essays, poems and short stories about who belongs where, and at what cost
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Half sisters wrestle with their father’s death and their sibling ties in ‘I Know You Love Me, Too’
Amy Neswald structures her debut novel as linked stories that take place over decades.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Thoreau’s Maine Woods’ and ‘Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding’
Dean Bennett’s very smart contemporary exploration of Thoreau’s three journeys into Maine’s North Woods, and an expansive illustrated history of Maine shipbuilding told by Nathan Lipfert
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OFF RADAR: ‘The Body in Late Stage Capitalism: Poems’
The central emotions are rage and grief, and they come reeling off most of the pages like fireballs.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Dear Maine’ and ‘Bad Medicine’
A powerful collection of profiles of immigrants who’ve settled in Maine, and the latest medical thriller from Ogunquit author Geoffrey Cooper
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Portland shares top billing in Jule Selbo’s cinematic debut mystery
“10 Days” is a substantive ticking-clock thriller that introduces an officer who has lost a limb but not her mettle.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders’
‘One of the most gripping books I’ve read this year,’ writes Dana Wilde.
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Author Event: ‘Dirt Road Revival’
Local authors Sen. Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward to celebrate launch of new book