The extraordinary Nancy 3. Hoffman has added “published author” to her notable list of achievements that already includes singer, accordionist, pianist, musical director, and Curator/Director of the world’s only Umbrella Cover Museum. […]
We need look no farther than Ana Juan‘s illustration of the twelve-year-old girl named September and the Wyvern in chains to know that Cat Valente‘s newest novel offers something both classic and […]
“Romantic and blood-streaked and infused with magic so real you can feel it on your fingertips” is how Cory Doctorow described Deathless, a new novel by Peaks Island’s own Catherynne Valente. Of […]
It’s no secret to islanders that Kim MacIsaac knows her way around. As Executive Director of the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, she shares her insights into the cast of characters from Portland […]
Jamie Hogan’s Seven Days of Daisy just received some well-deserved press in the Portland Press Herald. In a prior post, I shared how Jamie debuted a self-published version of her first children’s […]
“It’s not a protest, it’s a timely celebration (of poetry),” said Joshua Bodwell, Executive Director of Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance at a gathering of writers in Longfellow Square today. What made […]
Extramarital trysts of national heroes no longer surprise Americans. From Monticello to the White House, our Founding Fathers, presidents, and (more recently) sports celebrities have made their legacies more, uh, complicated by […]
“I rode to earth on the backside of a comet. Mau Mau Bett saw me blaze across the sky and disappear into the moon, where I reined in the comet with my […]
“A wildly talented raft of authors” characterizes Maine, according to the promotional poster for this year’s Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Holiday Book Sale. You’ll hear no argument from me. Should we […]
Island author Catherynne M. Valente, a Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award Nominee, treats us to another new novel (she introduced Palimpsest last year) at her Longfellow Books reading on November 18th. […]
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