Sophie Ouellette-Howitz

It took Michele Filgate over a decade to articulate the essay that generated her new anthology collection What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: 15 Writers Break the Silence. The topic of that essay was her stepfather’s sexual abuse, but what Filgate actually wanted to capture was how that experience altered her relationship with […]

Suzette Smith This year’s Portland Book Festival really seemed to work. The weather was outstanding! (That’s not something Literary Arts could control, but it was still nice.) The festival was crowded, but more manageable than previous years. At festivals this popular, attendees sometimes can’t even stop at booths because the river of people sweeps them […]

Suzette Smith Last night was perfect weather for a LitCrawl, just cold enough to justify a thermos of tea, but not so cold that literary revelers minded waiting outside a Lit Crawl venue that went over their scheduled 45 minute window. The Portland Book Festival Lit Crawl is a fun pre-PBF tradition that places readings […]