Sarah Payne Stuart is among 22 writers to receive the award.
Lifestyle
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Colby museum receives rare series of 100 Picasso etchings
Peter and Paula Lunder donate Picasso’s signed set known as the Vollard Suite from 1939.
List of most popular baby names is released (Emma, Noah rejoice)
Not many surprises in the top picks but Isis has disappeared as a girl’s name and Riaan for boys is surging from nowhere to middle of the pack.
Lucky Clark on Music: Dominic and the Lucid
Unity College Center for the Performing Arts to host the Portland-based band Dominic and The Lucid that has drawn crowds of fans with its special brand of rock.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Congressman’
Film is stunningly clear, lucid, simple, direct, honest and pure, writes JP Devine.
Elvin Bishop, four others inducted into Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis
Five new inductees were honored on Wednesday by the Blues Foundation.
Kardashian trip to Cuba draws criticism
The first family of reality TV is apparently filming an episode of their show in the foreign country.
New York Times prepares to deliver meal kits to customers
The newspaper partners with a food delivery firm to ship boxes of meals based on New York Times recipes.
Volunteers take on giant task of dissecting 7-ton minke whale on Biddeford beach
The 28-foot-long whale washed up dead on a beach in Horseshoe Cove this week.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Mad For Glory’ and ‘Fogged Inn’
Releases from Maine authors Robert Booth and Barbara Ross