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- Festival of the book
If you want to be closer to Ethan Hawke, mark your calendar to attend the second annual Maine Festival of the Book, to be held this Thursday through Saturday in Portland.
- A long-silent civil-rights heroine comes to Maine
It's a writer's dream — to stumble across a story, a figure, or a moment in time, that influenced our history but remains relatively untouched by the hands of academia or pop culture.
- Lobster chronicler starts making stuff up
Fishing-boat captain Linda Greenlaw has changed course in her most recent work.
- Defending the universally loathed
Forsaken entities deserve a second chance.
- Dirty politics
For two years as Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox was best known for gleeful daily references to "ass-fucking" and political tawdriness in the blogosphere.
- New Portland writer gets a life-changing surprise
She calls the award “miraculous,” and indeed, it’s an apt narrative for a woman who relishes magical realism.
- 100% Green, this week
We thought it made sense to print the Phoenix ’s “Green Issue” on 100 percent recycled paper, procured through the Montreal-based paper producer Abitibi-Consolidated.
- Water wars
Elizabeth Royte’s new book, Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It , is a frank reminder of just how ubiquitous bottled water has become.
- When I'm sixty-four
It’s significant that for this twenty-something reader, the least gripping tales in Elizabeth Strout’s new “novel in stories” are those that deal with teenagers and young adults.
- Awkward moments
Sue Miller’s stories can be uncomfortable to read — and that’s a compliment.
- Scarred for life
There’s evidence that blogging is not merely comforting, but healthy.
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