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It’s Mame! I Mean It’s Maine!

July 26, 2020: Angela Lansbury was, of course, Broadway’s Mame, and she was, even of courser, Maine personified by Jessica …

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Why James Garner?

May 10, 2020: Two reasons. One: I love James Garner. Two: He played Philip Marlowe in 1969’s marvelous shambles Marlowe, …

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Jennifer Jones Made Her Do It!

May 8, 2020: I haven’t read Emma Straub’s 2012 novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, but I believe she wrote …

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(Left to Right) Art, Artstar, Star

March 22, 2020: I’m trying to tell you that I just reviewed Anne Elliott’s short story collection, The Artstars, for …

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My Favorite Snobs

February 17, 2020: I’m always looking for an excuse to use a photo of Gilligan’s Island characters at this site, …

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Why So Much Carnage, Maine?

February 2, 2020: Never mind the blueberries; what about the bodies? In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a rather high …

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My Favorite Defense Attorneys

January 15, 2020: My favorite defense attorneys—thanks for asking!—are Lawrence and Kenneth Preston, the father-son team featured in the Reginald …

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I Still Don’t Like Money

December 20, 2019: The blog Little Old Lady Comedy, my favorite thing with “Little Old Lady” in the title (just …

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I Am Powerless Against Any Book about Old Hollywood

December 15, 2019: Actually, it turns out that Diana Altman’s novel We Never Told—which I review in the Portland Press …

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Wait: There’s ANOTHER Maine Writer?

November 18, 2019: It turns out that, incredibly, there are several. Yesterday the Portland Press Herald ran my review of …

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Nell Beram

Nell Beram is a former Atlantic Monthly staff editor and coauthor of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Abrams, 2013). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared at The Awl, Bright Lights Film Journal, The Cut, Salon, and Slate and in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, L'Officiel, The Threepenny Review, V magazine, and elsewhere.

She lives in the Boston area with her family.

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