This has been an amazing year for books, and whether you like cooking, history, science, movies, or something entirely different, there’s something in here for everyone!...
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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry Taking real-life events, Barry has created a fantastical novel about one of the world’s icons: John Lennon. In “Beatlebone,” it’s 1978 and...
Photo/Album
Guy Capecelatro III and Michael Winters sit at a conference table in The Sound’s office. Capecelatro, a wordsmith who rarely (if ever) declines a project,...
Monster man
When writer Jeremy Robinson was growing up in Beverly, Mass., he’d look out his bedroom window and imagine Godzilla, the giant movie monster best known...
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell Although she has been writing award-nominated fiction for some time now, Campbell is still a hidden...
Of the moment
Jeremy Miranda is known for paintings that merge views from indoor and out, landscape and architecture, memory and the moment. But recently, he has just...
Sheltering spaces
When artist Patrick Healey set out to paint the homes of 14 Seacoast poets for his collaborative project, “The Poet’s House,” he quickly learned that...
Reading revolution
Bookstores and libraries in the Seacoast will celebrate Banned Books Week from Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 with readings, community conversations, and displays of some...
Original alternative
Al Barr’s 17-years-and-counting with the Dropkick Murphys are a little more than half of his lifelong performance career. It’s fair to say that what Barr...
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Undermajor–domo Minor by Patrick deWitt DeWitt, author of the amazing revisionist Western “The Sisters Brothers,” returns with a strange and compelling comedic tale of a man...
Keeping watch
with Type 1 diabetes The American Diabetes Association estimates that 1 to 3 million people in the United States have Type 1 diabetes, and more...
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“Smaller and Smaller Circles” by F.H. Batacan Two Jesuit priests investigate a serial killer in Manila who is murdering poor, young boys living on the...
Busting up the Bowery
Cory Levine spent eight years living in New York City and working as an editor for Marvel Comics. Six of those years were pretty good,...
Gun by Anne Oleson
Editor’s note: In April, Portsmouth’s RiverRun Bookstore started accepting submissions for its first short story contest. The response was big, according to RiverRun owner Tom...
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French Concession, by Xiao Bai Chinese writer Bai is making his English language debut with this thrilling literary noir set in 1930s Shanghai. Hseuh, a photographer,...
Letters of note
When she was 23, Joanna Rakoff left graduate school for New York City. She wanted to be a poet. She also needed money, and so...
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In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar Several countries are represented in this dazzling debut collection of stories that explore borders both real and imagined. A...
Intellect and intuition
Ever since she was a child, poet Kate Leigh has found inspiration at the Isles of Shoals. Her family traveled to Star Island every summer...
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A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Atkinson’s astounding book, “Life After Life,” followed Ursula Todd as she lived and died over and over during...
Free Comic Book Day returns to Rochester
Downtown Rochester is set to be overrun with heroes, villains, and characters of all stripes when the Free Comic Book Day Festival takes over the...
The Word Barn opens in Exeter
When she moved to Exeter two years ago, writer and teacher Sarah Anderson daydreamed about using the barn on her property as a place where...
Share your short story with RiverRun
RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth wants your stories — specifically, your short stories. The bookstore is sponsoring a short story contest and is looking for previously...
Spring series
by Larry Clow Like Hollywood, comic publishers tend to save their blockbuster books for the summer. Blockbusters aren’t always the best, though, and already, April...
New tools
her journey from journalist to carpenter It was unsexy men that drove Nina MacLaughlin away from newspapers — specifically, a list of Boston’s 100 unsexiest...
A Dog One Day, a Cat the Next
and the difference between writing prose and poetry Alternately surreal, metaphysical, grimly realistic and sharply clear, Charles Simic’s writing reflects a life spent surrounded by...