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Agnes Bushell’s latest novel blossoms into kaleidoscope But "The Oracle Pool" is anything but a classic mystery. The plot is non-linear, the living and dead commingle, and the characters are seekers of every stripe. By William David Barry Local review Cover courtesy of Littoral Books “His laugh carried. His voice carried. So early in the morning, and already he was assuming his back-of-the-bus role as Comedy Central Carian Correspondent (‘It’s Jack Swann here, reporting from ancient Caria, on this fifth day of pilgrimage in the exciting world of tumulus tombs, oracular caves and egg...

increase font size Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute 'Blue Summer' by Jim Nichols won for fiction, and Kerri Asenault's 'Mill Town' for nonfiction. Share Maine writers and readers celebrated the year’s top books during an online Maine Literary Awards ceremony Thursday evening, hosted by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. The annual competition is open to all Maine residents, and includes categories for published books, as well as drama, short works and student writing. Nearly 300 writers sent work for consideration. Carolyn Chute won the 2021 MWPA Distinguished Ach...

Letter to the editor: Column makes clear what one-click orders cost Maine businesses Share As a book publisher – I am co-owner of Littoral Books of Portland – I am grateful to Greg Kesich for “Living in a one-click world,” his May 2 Maine Sunday Telegram column on Alec MacGillis’ book about Amazon. Very often we are asked, by both our writers and our readers, why we don’t sell our books on Amazon. Some people get quite angry at us for depriving them of the convenience of buying with one click. I always answer that Littoral Books will never do business with Amazon because: 1. Amazo...

Ten poets from the collection Enough!  Poems of Resistance and Protest will join The Poets Corner to read on Sunday afternoon, April 11, from 4 - 5:30 p.m.: Claire Millikin, Donna Loring, Laura Bonazzoli, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Ellen Goldsmith, Lois Anne, Carol Bachofner, Meghan Sterling, Kathleen Ellis, and Myronn Hardy. Register for this Zoom event on the website www.thepoetscorner.org/events Enough! edited by Claire Millikin and Agnes Bushell, is an anthology of poems, by 27 Maine poets, who in the midst of a pandemic, of lockdowns and quarantines, of protests and death and struggle, ...

Today’s poem is “Glukopikron” by Katherine Hagopian Berry. Her work has appeared in the Café Review, Deep Water, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, Strange Fire: Jewish Voices on the Pandemic, and Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest. Her first collection of poetry, Mast Year, was published by Littoral Books in 2020. Katherine lives in Bridgton, Maine. She writes, “‘Glukopikron’ was born when, thanks to an amazing moment in Agnes Bushell’s novel, The House on Perry Street, I was remind...