books
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Going home to a papermaking past, Maine native embarks on a deeply personal journey
Kerri Arsenault, who grew up in Rumford-Mexico, draws attention to a Faustian bargain with her investigative memoir.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2020
Mother and sons pen children’s book about cancer
Anita Lichman and her sons, Jacob and Max Lichman-Paul, hope 'Making Room for Cancer' will help families like theirs navigate a parent's diagnosis and treatment.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2020
Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82
The 'Bless Me, Ultima' novelist, who influenced a generation of Latino writers, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
How Maine crime writers are rethinking the way they portray police
The current calls for police reform and ends to racism have prompted Maine writers of crime novels to rethink, and in some cases change, their work.
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PublishedJune 26, 2020
Faith Notes: ‘This Life we Share,’ a book review
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PublishedJune 25, 2020
Brunswick author teams up with astrophysicist to answer ‘silly, yet totally smart’ questions about space in new book
What do Black Holes Eat for Dinner? And Other Silly, yet Totally Smart Questions about Space,” by Katie Coppens and Grant Tremblay, published by Tumblehome Learning, is available July 1.
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PublishedJune 13, 2020
Maine libraries and bookstores seeing increased demand for books about race
Since the death of George Floyd and widespread Black Lives Matter protests, Mainers – both children and adults – have been reading more about race.
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PublishedMay 15, 2020
Commentary: My wife and I just gave away a small library. It hurt
Twenty-seven boxes later, a Scarborough native reflects on what was both ‘a depressing process’ and ‘a comforting review of our adult lives.’
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2020
The declining fortunes of a founding family of Maine unspool with a light touch
In Jason Brown's latest collection of linked stories, 'A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed,' everybody has plans for the family's decaying property.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2020
Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting
Written in the form of a screenplay, the novel stars Generic Asian Man, who is stuck playing Background Oriental Male.
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