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J.D. Salinger: 1919 - 2010
In Memoriam
J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the New Yorker .
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STEVE VINEBERG
| February 05, 2010
Review: Patti Smith's Just Kids
The small prophecies of Patti Smith
How do you get to be the Godmother of Punk? Pure dumb luck, for starters.
By
CARRIE BATTAN
| February 08, 2010
Power of place
Exploring a New England ghost town in person, and on the page
I'd arranged the trip (Dogtown is about an hour and a half south of Portland) because I was planning to write about Elyssa East's new book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town.
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DEIRDRE FULTON
| January 29, 2010
Searching for Stephen King
A new biography presents facts but not a full story
In 1983, Doubleday published yet another book from the increasingly renowned Stephen King, whose Carrie and The Shining (to name just two) were already popular books and movies.
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DEIRDRE FULTON
| January 13, 2010
The art of horror
A coffee table book that might scare you awake
While Lisa Rogak's Stephen King biography might be labeled "for fans only," it's unclear whether Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King should carry the same marker.
By
DEIRDRE FULTON
| January 13, 2010
Walk hard
Joshua Ferris abandons the office and hits The Road
In Joshua Ferris's unsparing second novel, Tim Farnsworth doesn't know why he walks, but nothing but exhaustion can stop him.
By
CHRISTOPHER GRAY
| January 13, 2010
Photos: Stephen King-inspired artwork
Images from Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King
Artwork from Stephen King's novel covers and more
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CENTIPEDE PRESS
| January 14, 2010
Creating a legend
How Little Round Top made Chamberlain a hero
The soldiers of the 20th Maine Regiment marched quickly into the night, moving west from Hanover toward Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863.
By
DONALD G. FULTON
| January 06, 2010
Booked solid
A hefty season of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
The holidays are over — time to hit the books.
By
BARBARA HOFFERT
| January 04, 2010
2009: The year in books
True stories - fact and fiction
Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best books the Phoenix reviewed in 2009.
By
JON GARELICK
| December 22, 2009
Updike does death, R. Crumb does God, Vanity Fair does Proust
Gift books to savor
Trying to reach as broad a range of tastes and pocketbooks as possible, we this year scavenged everything from the front pages of the Onion to R. Crumb's genesis, to valedictory Updike. Stuff to read, stuff to look at, glossy pages and matte. Remember: be careful not to nick the pages or spill eggnog on them before you wrap. Happy holidays!
By
PHOENIX STAFF
| December 08, 2009
It takes a village
... and a compilation album/photobook to raise a self-sustaining indie scene
Treble Treble , a new 15-page photobook and 10-artist compilation album curated by local musician and budding photographer Joshua Loring, is the first concerted effort to market Portland's indie music scene.
By
CHRISTOPHER GRAY
| November 24, 2009
Magic tricks
Alice Munro has them, Philip Roth doesn’t
You have to give a seventysomething writer credit for daring to begin a book with “He’d lost his magic.”
By
ED SIEGEL
| November 11, 2009
Rolling stoned
Jonathan Lethem’s freewheeling Chronic City
Every new gambit is just another log on the roaring bonfire of Jonathan Lethem's eighth novel.
By
CHRISTOPHER GRAY
| November 04, 2009
Graphic Traffic
A sweet crop of graphic narratives
Comics. Graphic novels. Sequential-art books. Call them what you will, but there are more of them than ever.
By
MIKE MILIARD
| October 16, 2009
Learning curve
Maine novelist teases our brains
Maine novelist teases our brains
By
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 23, 2009
No assignments here
An enjoyable reading list
Need a break from all that required reading this fall? You're in luck. In
By
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 16, 2009
Victorian jewel
A fictional setting that never fades
What price beauty? That's the question lovely Grace Hammer has to answer as her world begins to fall apart.
By
CLEA SIMON
| September 09, 2009
Which was fine
Jessica Anthony's pleasantly disturbing Convalescent
There are probably 10 or 15 reviews I could write of Jessica Anthony's The Convalescent . Leitmotifs populate the book's 240 pages like thick, black hairs on the back of an old man's wrinkled ass.
By
SAM PFEIFLE
| September 02, 2009
Visible man
Tracy Kidder gets into the picture
As Tracy Kidder’s immersive journalism matures — his latest book recounts his travels through genocidal East Africa — he becomes more visible.
By
JEFF INGLIS
| October 15, 2009
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