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Published
June 8, 2023

Quill Books & Beverage in Westbrook to close

The owners of the bookstore/cafe blamed post-pandemic changes in the city of Westbrook.
Published
April 9, 2023

Bedside table: Late-night reading

Book recommendations from readers.
Published
March 22, 2023

Clarence Page: The age-old trick of ‘passing’– fiction writer disgraced by lies about himself

After Hache Carrillo died, his friends, readers and husband learned that almost everything about him was made up – even his ‘Cuban’ heritage.
Published
January 30, 2023

Amina Luqman-Dawson’s ‘Freewater’ wins John Newbery Medal

The middle-grade novel about a secret community of formerly enslaved people has won the Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.
Published
January 2, 2023

Commentary: Bookstores are a refuge for freedom of speech while censors wage battle

If you make yourself available to the experience, a bookstore is a magical space, a site of resistance against ‘the attention economy.’

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Published
December 23, 2022

Commentary: What gives ‘Charlotte’s Web’ such formidable staying power?

Seventy years after its publication, E.B. White’s little book of wisdom continues to enthrall readers – children and adults alike.
Published
November 28, 2022

Maine author Monica Wood supports strike at HarperCollins, refuses to work on forthcoming novel

The Portland writer is represented by a publisher owned by HarperCollins, which is facing mounting pressure from unionized workers, including her editor, who walked off the job on Nov. 10.
Published
November 6, 2022

Former Green Beret wants his poetry to serve as a manual for talking to veterans

Ryan Stovall of Phillips says his new book of poems, 'Black Snowflakes Smothering a Torch,' is meant to help people learn how to better understand and interact with those who have been through war.
Published
October 25, 2022

John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at 77

The 1973 novel and subsequent film about a Harvard Law School student was praised for its unvarnished portrait of intellectual life.
Published
October 17, 2022

Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.' Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.