Douglas Smith illustrated the original ‘Wicked’ novel in 1995 and has done new art for a special edition timed to the release of the movie ‘Wicked: For Good.’
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Meet a Peaks Island artist and his ‘Wicked’ work
Douglas Smith illustrated the original ‘Wicked’ novel in 1995 and has done new art for a special edition timed to the release of the movie ‘Wicked: For Good.’
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The Portland Dirt is a zine you might keep seeing around | Column
The year-old publication, styled after newspapers, has been amassing a following through copies placed in businesses throughout the city.
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Read ‘Flow into Girl,’ a poem by Lukcia Patricia Sullivan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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‘Heart the Lover’ delivers a compelling, sensitive story about first love and its after effects
Lily King’s newest novel revisits key characters from an earlier work.
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‘Queen Esther’ isn’t a ‘Cider House Rules’ sequel, but it’s something
John Irving’s new novel about the son of a Jewish au pair is quite literally all over the place.
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Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘We Survived the Night’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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A fraught mother-son relationship is at the heart of Jason Brown’s new memoir
But in ‘Character Witness,’ the Hallowell native also explores addiction, anxiety and how the past can cloud the present.
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She found an old photo, then reimagined her grandmother’s life
With ‘Indignity,’ Lea Ypi rescues her Albanian forebear, who grew up in the Ottoman Empire, from the flattening bureaucratic archives.
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Maine’s Carnegie libraries get a gift in celebration of American independence
More than 1,000 Carnegie libraries across the U.S., including 17 in Maine, will receive the money to mark the country’s 250th birthday.