Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR s
Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to
Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown in September 2014. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: trinity@tuesdayagency.com
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Tin Mountain welcomes Milltown author Kerri Arsenault
May 06, 2021ALBANY On Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m., Tin Mountain Conservation Center s Author Series, welcomes Kerri Arsenault, author of award winning Milltown: Reckoning with What Remains.
Arsenault was born and raised in the rural town of Mexico, Maine. Mexico, like many other towns that grew up on the banks of rivers, revolved around a mill. In this case it was a paper mill. The mill provided jobs for many people in town and those that didn t work in the mill, worked in the businesses that came to support those that worked in the mills the grocery store, furniture store, doctors, dentists and yes, even the funeral director. Playgrounds, churches, local parks and more benefitted from the generosity of the mill and some bear the name of the mill founder. A marble bust of the mill founder, Hugh J Chisholm sits in the lobby of the town hall. What we come to learn through the pages of Milltown, is that the very mill t
OFF RADAR: ‘simple cells’ and ‘Bashō in Acadia’
Former Puckerbrush Review contributor Mark Rutter’s words at play
By Dana Wilde
“simple cells” by Mark Rutter; InkConcrete, United Kingdom, 2020; 72 pages, paperback, $6.26.
Readers who remember the now-retired Puckerbrush Review may be interested to find out that Mark Rutter, a frequent contributor to the magazine, is still hard at work in his home in England and has a new collection of poems, “simple cells.”
UMaine professor Constance Hunting founded the influential Puckerbrush Review in 1978, editing and publishing it until her death in 2006; Sanford Phippen then took up the reins for six more years, and the last issue appeared in 2012, a long and distinguished run for a small literary magazine. Rutter, who taught writing at the UMaine Orono and UMaine Machias in the 1990s and 2000s, is a poet well-known to Puckerbrush and Down East readers. He returned to his native England in 2003 and now teaches at the U
Virtual event to feature speakers, workshops on all types of writing
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Las Positas College is holding its first Literary Arts Festival all day Saturday (May 8), a free virtual event that will feature national and internationally recognized authors including best-selling memoirists, a Hollywood screenwriter, poet laureates and more. This event is truly special as it allows LPC to showcase the incredible programs we have here while utilizing a virtual modality to bring world-class authors and speakers to our festival, said LPC English professor Martin Nash, one of the founders of the festival. This is just the beginning of what we believe will become a successful literary festival for years to come.
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