Zazen is Veselka's buzzworthy novel set in a parallel universe Portland, Oregon. Veselka tells the story of a young woman whose life is interwoven with liberal activism but is seeking a new way to agitate.
With the start of school rapidly approaching, teachers and parents are trying to solve the problem of the "summer slump," the significant setback in reading skills a lot of kids experience when they return from summer vacation.
One library program is bolstering the reading confidence of kids by having them read aloud to an unlikely tutor...a fluffy Akita named Willow.
Neil Gaiman is often credited for expanding the audience for comics beyond white, teenage boys with his Sandman series. But he is also a true multi-media phenom, a filmmaker, (now) recording artist, screenwriter for the likes of Dr. Who, ...
Today on Word of Mouth, a conversation with Margaret Atwood, recorded live at the Music Hall in Portsmouth as part of the “Writers on a New England Stage” series. Virginia spoke with the award winning author of the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s ...
A conversation with Isabel Allende about her book Island Beneath the Sea, live from the "Writers on a New England Stage" series. Allende is the best selling Latin-American author in the world. Beginning with her 1982 debut, House of the ...
Ann Patchett's new novel, State of Wonder, is topping all the big reading lists right now. She reads from the book, tells a terrifying true story about her close encounter with an anaconda, and has a blisteringly funny conversation with Virginia.
David McCullough is widely known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning writing on great leaders and American politics, in books such as Truman and John Adams. In his newest work he turns his focus to Americans abroad in Nineteenth Century Paris.
In this edition of Writers on a New England Stage, McCullough reads from his newest book, ...
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, and Krakatoa visited the Music Hall in Portsmouth to talk about his new book, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Disasters, Titanic Storms and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories. It’s a biography of the ocean, from its origins 195 million years ago, through centuries of discovery, ...
Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her new book, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Piece with Marriage, and talks about her relationship, skipping yoga in the mornings, and why Pamela Anderson is a great philosopher.
