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Sanford Phippen Interviews Maine Writers |
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Sanford Phippen, Fogler Library Friends board member and well-known Maine author, is the host of "A Good Read" on Maine PBS, which is now in its second season. Phippen grew up in Hancock, Maine, graduated from The University of Maine and Syracuse University, and now teaches English at Orono High School. He was the host of the Maine PBS series, "RFD Maine," which was nominated for a regional Emmy award in 1998. |
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The program asks the question, what is it about Maine that makes for such good storytelling? He looks to some of Maine's most gifted authors for the answer. All of the authors have garnered local, national, and even international recognition. Among his guests for the first season were Constance Hunting, Carolyn Chute, and Janwillem van de Wetering. |
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Author Sanford Phippen speaks with a group at Fogler Library. |
Having been called Maine's Renaissance woman, Constance Hunting has a huge literary presence throughout the state. Along with being an accomplished poet, she is also founder and editor of Puckerbrush Press and has been a professor of writing at
The University of Maine for over twenty years. One of Maine's best-selling writers, Carolyn Chute champions the plight of Maine's rural underclass in her novels and short stories. Janwillem van de Wetering has written more than 30 books. He's a cult figure in the U.S. and is very popular in Europe, especially for his Amsterdam cop novels. In the second season, Phippen welcomes Richard Russo, Cathie Pelletier, and Baron Wormser, among others. Russo is the author of Nobody's Fool, which was made into a movie starring Paul Newman. His latest book is Empire Falls. Pelletier grew up in Allagash and continues to use Maine as an inspiration for her writing. Wormser is the state's poet laureate and has appeared in numerous publications. He worked as a librarian in Maine after moving here in the 1970's and now lives in Hallowell. |
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Transcripts and information about the show can be found on the show's website, http://www.mpbc.org/agoodread/agoodread.html. |
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