Jennifer Rooks leads a conversation on the news of the past month. Some of the topics we'll discuss include: the race for the White House, international affairs from Syria to the plight of refugees, local items of interest – including the mural of Governor LePage in Portland, and cultural happenings, including the new Bruce Springsteen memoir and the Emmy awards.
Guests: Mary Pols, Feature writer at Portland Press Herald, not entirely reformed movie/book critic, author of Accidentally on Purpose. Views my own.
Joshua Bodwell, executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Poets & Writers Magazine. He is a contributing editor at the online journal Fiction Writers Review. His journalism has garnered awards from the Maine and New England press associations. He was awarded the 2015 Marianne Russo Award for emerging authors from the Key West Literary Seminar.
Andrew Rudalevige, Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, Bowdoin College