The View from Mount Battie
By Katy Kelleher I’ve only lived in Maine for a few months, but I am already beginning to feel like a native. There is something about the landscape that appeals…
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Anna Karenina: The Movie
By Katy Kelleher Great film adaptations of classic novels are all alike; every junk Hollywood movie is terrible in its own way. Which way will the 2012 adaptation of Leo…
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Discovering Edna: A Visit To The Whitehall Inn
By Katy Kelleher One hundred years ago, The Whitehall Inn stood in front of Route 1 in Camden, Maine, just like it does today. But a century ago, the well-traveled road…
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Literary Pit Stop: RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH
By Katy Kelleher In the age of digital books and online shopping, it is harder than ever for an independent bookstore to survive. Unable to compete with internet behemoth Amazon.com,…
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Murder She Wrote: Reviewing “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn
By Katy Kelleher Books, like all other products we consume, are subject to trends. What was popular mere months ago might suddenly feel stale, and overnight sensations are always apt…
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My Friendship With John Cheever
by Chris Epting Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. – John…
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Songs of Blue and Gold: Lawrence Durrell’s Island of Corfu
by Deborah Lawrenson By the time I reached Corfu, the season was in its last gasp. Evening hung early over the bay when I walked the stony beach at Kalami…
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Edith Wharton’s Art History Lesson in San Vivaldo
by Don Benson In a rather remote village in the southern hills of Tuscany is an ancient monastery. There is a church and eighteen separate free-standing chapels. We – four…
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San Buenaventura: Erle Stanley Gardner’s Town of Grace
by L.J. Martin Old California. What a gracious time it was. A time when it was said, It’s better to be on time than invited. When you were never late…
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A Mountain Climber’s Dream: Vivienne de Watteville’s Mount Kenya
by Helen Palmer On Christmas Day 1928, a young British woman arrived to live in a hut on the slopes of Mount Kenya. She had marched for two days to…
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