Writers on a New England Stage

Elizabeth Strout with "The Things We Never Say"

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

• The Historic Theater

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author’s new novel is a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world. Evening's Moderator: Casey McDermott, NHPR's Senior Audience Editor

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Matt Haig with "The Midnight Train"

Monday, June 1, 2026

• The Historic Theater

The Midnight Train is a magical, time-traveling love story. Like The Midnight Library, it looks at questions of how to live the best life. But its answers are different. Evening's Moderator: Jackie Harris, Producer of NHPR’s Morning Edition

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SEACOAST LITFEST - An Evening with Jenna Bush Hager

Thursday, June 11, 2026

• The Historic Theater

Humanitarian, TODAY host, and bestselling author Jenna Bush Hager kicks off the 2nd annual Seacoast LitFest with her imprint author Shannon Garvey as special guest.

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SEACOAST LITFEST - Jill Lepore with "These Truths"

Sunday, June 14, 2026

• The Historic Theater

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, in time for the country’s 250th anniversary. 

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SEACOAST LITFEST - Barbara McQuade with "The Fix"

Sunday, June 14, 2026

• The Historic Theater

The New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Attorney offers a piercing exposé on the escalating threat of far-right politics—and a clear roadmap for saving our democracy.

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Maggie O'Farrell with "Land"

Friday, June 26, 2026

• The Historic Theater

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. Evening's Moderator: Rebecca Lavoie, NHPR's Director of Podcasts & On Demand

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Daniel Mason with "Country People"

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

• The Historic Theater

A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods.

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