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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Notes on the Landscape of Home’ and ‘The Outhouse in Winter’
A collection of 32 essays that explore sense of community, and a coming-of-age adventure during the summer of 1959
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AUTHOR EVENT: Tim Cotton
Listen as Cotton tells stories about all things in the dooryard
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‘Night of the Living Rez’ a finalist for national prize
Levant author Morgan Talty’s collection is one of three up for The Story Prize.
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An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel
Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Elegiaca Americana: Poems’
Claire Millikin’s intense poems track the inner life of the poet from her childhood in the South to her adulthood in New England.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Fairy Tale’
If you are a fan of the Dark Tower books, this somewhat offbeat version of them is likely to capture your attention.
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Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023
The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Soft Features’ and ‘A Countryman’s Journal’
A debut novel by central Maine author Gillian Burnes, and a collection of 77 essays by Roy Barrette
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New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing
‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?