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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Peaks Island author Nicole d’Entremont will read at Longfellow Books from her novel, City of Belief, which I describe here. City of Belief is set in a Lower East Side soup kitchen […]
Nothing sustains writers like reading. While the island enjoys a large number of resident writers, it hosts an astronomical number of avid readers. And island readers don’t just read books, they consume […]
When does a writer become a writer? When they start writing? When they publish a book or begin to teach writing? When I asked Eleanor Morse this question, she said she started […]
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