Maine Reads

Thanks to everyone who came to the festival -- including volunteers, sponsors, collaborators, presenters and the masses of attendees! What a great weekend!!

bonobopizza.com Buona pizza! Tonight is the last night of Portland's Bonobo sharing profits with Maine Reads! So check it out, corner of Pine and Brackett. Hip digs, delicious food ... indulge yourself for a good cause! Take out too!

Tonight is The Maine Festival of the Book's Opening Night - benefit at 6 pm, author talk with Tony Horwitz at 7:30 pm. Tkts still available at www.mainereads.org.
From all reports Tony is an amazing speaker and this will be an illutrated talk. Join us! (And like our new page! http://www.facebook.com/MaineReads -- you're on it now!)

Maine Reads | Dedicated to the fight for a more literate Maine Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz, author of the historical narratives Midnight Rising and Confederates in the Attic gives an illustrated talk.

Check out the link below for navigating downtown Ptld tomorrow evening during the President's visit. Allow extra time!
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/195142/314/Presidential-visit-to-impact-Greater-Portland-

Presidential visit to impact Greater Portland | wcsh6.com PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- President Barack Obama's visit to the city is expected to impact traffic throughout the area on Friday afternoon and evening.

Maine Festival of the Book presenters keep racking up the publicity in the New York Times. Last week is was Heidi Julavits with a glowing book review and Michael Maglaras with a great write up of his Lynd Ward film. Yesterday the Sunday Book Review raved about novelist Peter Behrens The O'Briens. All of these talented people will present Sat. March 31 at the Abromson Center at USM, Portland. Programs are unticketed, free and we offer free parking!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-obriens-by-peter-behrens.html?_r=1

‘The O’Briens,’ by Peter Behrens Peter Behrens’s novel tracks four generations of an Irish family in North America.