Lewiston author Paul Dionne will give a talk as part of the Books and Stories program beginning at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at the The Franco Center in Lewiston. Dionne, author of “The Priestess and the Pope” and new “Madeleine’s Inquisition” will discuss the basic theme of his books which is that the religious subordination of one sex to […]
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Farmington writer publishes book of poetry
Farmington resident Nathaniel Duggan’s debut book of poetry, “Death Egg,” has been published by Back Patio Press. “Death Egg” is a collection of poems about unemployment, love, jellyfish, despair, and apocalypses. Each poem is a bleak, dense rumination on contemporary American life, creating both powerful levity and despair with its exploration of the banal through […]
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John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, other authors sue OpenAI over copyright
they call the ChatGPT program a ‘massive commercial enterprise’ that is reliant upon ‘systematic theft on a mass scale.’
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Author Jennifer Lunden to discuss latest book at Denmark Arts Center
Author Jennifer Lunden discusses her most recent book, “American Breakdown,” at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Denmark Arts Center. Her wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James — ultimately […]
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A novel idea: Waterville woman launches book festival in Hallowell
The Maine Book Fest is expected to bring local authors, bibliophiles and booksellers to central Maine on Oct. 1.
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Author Amy Neswald to talk about her new book at Denmark Arts Center
Join author Amy Neswald to discuss her most recent book, “I Know You Love Me, Too,” 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Denmark Arts Center. Newswald describes her book, which is a New American Fiction Prize Winner, as a “novel-in-stories about sisterhood, grief, and discovering one’s true self through the accidents of life.” […]
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Lewiston author Suzanne Roy to speak about her books based on local Franco American history
Suzanne Roy, author of “The Enclave” and “The Legacy,” will discuss her books at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Her books follow a fictional French-Canadian immigrant girl who attempts to keep her dreams alive as she grows into womanhood in the “Little Canada” enclave her culture created to […]
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Author to discuss her book based on her time growing up in Mexico, Maine
Join author Kerri Arsenault discussing her book “Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains,” as part of the Author Series at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10, at the Denmark Arts Center. “In this masterful debut, the author creates a crisp, eloquent hybrid of atmospheric memoir and searing exposé. She writes urgently about the dire effects […]
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Author livestream with J.R. Dawson to be hosted by Lewiston Public Library
Writer and educator J.R. Dawson will be reading from and discussing her debut novel, “The First Bright Thing,” in a livestream event hosted by the Lewiston Public Library at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14. This virtual only event is free and open to the public. “The First Bright Thing” tells the story of Ringmaster – Rin, […]