{"id":873,"date":"2009-06-04T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?page_id=873"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:31:13","slug":"news-about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/about\/news-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"News About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><em style=\"font-size: 20.4px; font-weight: bold;\">Portland Monthly<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 20.4px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0Wins\u00a0Three National Prizes at the 2019 American Graphic Design Awards.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>November 11, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gdusa-winners-2019-3-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"gdusa winners 2019 3\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gdusa-winners-2019-3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gdusa-winners-2019-3-200x283.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gdusa-winners-2019-3-247x350.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gdusa-winners-2019-3.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2013 <em>Portland Monthly<\/em> is recognized with three prizes at the prestigious national American Graphic Design Awards for design excellence by <em>Graphic Design USA, <\/em>bringing the publication\u2019s updated total of GDUSA awards to<strong> 75<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The American Graphic Design Awards is a nationwide, juried competition from one of the most respected design-industry resources. The awards have been presented for 56 years, and the judges are composed of industry leaders in all aspects of graphic design. Among the 2019 winners are Amazon, Hearst Publishing, NBC Sports, PepsiCo, the U.S. Olympic Committee, US Veterans Affairs, and Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom more than 12,000 entries, a small handful of projects\u2014including several publication designs by the <em>Portland Monthly <\/em>magazine team\u2014were selected as winners,\u201d says GDUSA Editor and Publisher <strong>Gordon Kaye<\/strong>. \u201cThe performance is, in a nutshell, exceptional\u2014but not surprising given <em>Portland Monthly&#8217;s <\/em>consistent record of design excellence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Graphic Design USA\u2019s<\/em> prize announcement of the awards, including the individual issues of <em>Portland Monthly<\/em> that received the honors:<\/p>\n<p>CONGRATULATIONS!<\/p>\n<p>Your organization has been selected as a winner in the 2019 AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS. For 56 years, Graphic Design USA has sponsored competitions that spotlight areas of excellence and opportunity for creative professionals. GDUSA\u2019s American Graphic Design Awards is the original and the flagship, open to everyone in the community and honoring outstanding work of all kinds and across all media. Roughly 10,000 entries were submitted; a highly selective 10% are chosen as a winner \u2014 that includes you! \u2014 and recognized with an Award Winners Certificate. In the rare case of multiple awards, a Certificate is enclosed for each individual winning piece.<\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Monthly Magazine<\/em>, May 2019 Cover Design<\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Monthly Magazine<\/em>, Winterguide 2019 Cover Design<\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Monthly Magazine<\/em>, Summerguide 2018, A Thousand Julys Editorial Design<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNot only was Anderson .Paak heard all over Portland, but we ensured he was seen all over Portland\u2014before his event\u2014on our award-winning May 2019 cover,\u201d says <strong>Colin W. Sargent<\/strong>, founding Editor and Publisher of <strong>Portland Monthly<\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=may19_flipbook_fn&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=wg19_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 326px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=sg18_lo-res_for_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=270&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><em>Portland Monthly<\/em> Columnist Honored by <em>Wine Spectator.<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>We are very proud of our Everyday Sommelier columnist <strong>Ralph Hersom<\/strong> for being named a \u201cmajor industry figure\u201d in the latest <strong><em>Wine Spectator<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most recent issue of <em>Wine Spectator<\/em> features its annual Grand Award winners, an honor bestowed on restaurants around the world with the best wine lists. In the same issue, <em>Wine Spectator<\/em> looks back at \u201cThe Class of \u201981,\u201d the 13 restaurants that won the award in the first year it was given. Our own Ralph Hersom is noted in that article as one of the \u201cmajor industry figures\u201d\u00a0who went from Cellarmaster at Windows on the World\u2014one of the original 13\u2014to running the wine program at another Grand Award winner, Le Cirque.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph\u2019s life in wine began as a sommelier in San Francisco and progressed to his stints at the best restaurants NYC and, ultimately, to Hingham where \u201c<strong>Ralph\u2019s Hingham Wine Merchant<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0became his fourth fine wine shop. So, if you are looking for a specific wine\u2014no matter how hard it may seem to acquire\u2014or if you are looking to start building a cellar of your own, Ralph Hersom is the man to see. He\u2019s more than eager to share with you decades of knowledge and experience, and will source any wine for your cellar or a special occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><em>Portland Monthly<\/em> Wins Two\u00a0National Association of Real Estate Editors\u00a0Awards.<\/h1>\n<p><em>Portland Magazine<\/em> is pleased to be the recipient of two awards at the <strong>National Association of Real Estate Editors<\/strong> 68th Annual Journalism Competition. The awards were announced on June 15, 2018, at a ceremony at the NAREE\u2019s Las Vegas Conference. A team of judges from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University selected the winners.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Summerguide 2017<\/strong> story <strong>\u201cDream Islands,\u201d<\/strong> written by founding publisher and editor Colin W. Sargent and Willis Kuelthau, is the winner of the Bronze Award for Best Team Report. <strong>\u201cWeathering Heights\u201d<\/strong> (<strong>December 2017<\/strong>), written by Colin W. Sargent, received the Bronze Award for the Best Residential, Mortgage, or Financial Real Estate Magazine Story (General Circulation).<\/p>\n<p>The judges noted the \u201cbeautifully curated\u201d design and storytelling of both <em>Portland Monthly<\/em> entries. \u201cThe pictures are key to telling the story of this castle in Maine that was for sale at the end of 2017. It\u2019s an interesting story that we suspect got people to read about history without calling the piece a history story [\u2018Weathering Heights\u2019].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1929, the NAREE is a non-profit association of more than 600 real estate writers, editors, columnists, authors, and communicators nationwide. The annual journalism competition features awards \u201cfor reporting, writing, and editing, plus relatively new categories that showcase photography and social media,\u201d according to the NAREE.<\/p>\n<p>To view the winning stories please see the following links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2017\/06\/dream-islands-2017\/\">Summerguide 2017 Dream Islands<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2017\/11\/weathering-heights\/\">December 2017 Weathering Heights<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 20.4px; font-weight: bold;\">Portland Monthly<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 20.4px; font-weight: bold;\"> Wins Seven National Prizes at the 2017 American Graphic Design Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2013 <em>Portland Monthly<\/em> is recognized with seven prizes at the prestigious national <strong>American Graphic Design Awards<\/strong> for design excellence by Graphic Design USA.<\/p>\n<p>The American Graphic Design Awards is a nationwide, juried competition from one of the most respected design-industry resources. The awards have been presented for over five decades, and the judges are composed of industry leaders in all aspects of graphic design. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2017\/10\/portland-monthly-wins-seven-national-prizes-at-the-2017-american-graphic-design-award\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Flying Into Authorship: Colin Sargent Discusses Writing, Piloting Education&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>Colin Sargent, a poet, playwright, novelist and founder of<em> Portland Magazine<\/em>, began teaching <a href=\"http:\/\/flathatnews.com\/2017\/02\/14\/fighting-for-english-in-a-stem-world\/\">English<\/a> at the College of William and Mary just this semester, but he is already inspired by the rich history and traditions that he has observed while on campus. <a href=\"http:\/\/flathatnews.com\/2017\/09\/18\/flying-into-authorship-colin-sargent-discusses-writing-piloting-education\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"vc_custom_heading\"><em style=\"font-size: 16.31999969482422px; font-weight: bold;\">Portland Monthly<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16.31999969482422px; font-weight: bold;\"> Advertising Director, Nicole Barna, Proudly Continues Role As Treasurer of The Ad Club of Maine.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Nicole Barna<\/strong> has served as treasurer of The Ad Club for the past two years and enjoys leading the advertising team at <em>Portland Magazine<\/em>. You can find out\u00a0more about The Ad Club <a href=\"http:\/\/adclubofmaine.com\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><em style=\"font-size: 19.040000915527344px; font-weight: bold;\">Portland Monthly<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 19.040000915527344px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0founding editor and publisher\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 19.040000915527344px;\">Colin W. Sargent<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 19.040000915527344px; font-weight: bold;\">, Ph.D., is joining\u00a0the faculty at The College of\u00a0William and Mary as an adjunct writing professor in the English Department.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concurrent\u00a0with his work at\u00a0<em>Portland Monthly,\u00a0<\/em>he&#8217;ll be teaching &#8220;Know Your Audience&#8221; across multiple genres\u00a0to William and Mary&#8217;s emerging\u00a0writers in the Fall 2017 semester. For the Spring 2018 semester, he&#8217;ll be teaching &#8220;Writing for Magazines.&#8221; MediaBistro.com has twice profiled\u00a0<em>Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0as one of the most influential\u00a0magazine markets for writers in the country. He\u00a0has mentored more than 300 editorial and graphics interns over our 32-year\u00a0history, many of whom have gone on to significant writing careers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Monthly&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>founding editor and publisher\u00a0<strong>Colin W. Sargent<\/strong>\u00a0was a panel member at the Historical Novel Society&#8217;s 7th Annual North American Conference\u00a0in Portland, Oregon, this summer. Joining distinguished\u00a0panelists\u00a0David Ebershoff (<em>The Danish Girl<\/em>), Mary Burns (<em>Portraits of the Artist<\/em>), Stephanie Cowell (<em>The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare<\/em>), Yves Fey (<em>Floats the Dark Shadow<\/em>), and Linda Ulleseit (<em>Under the Almond Trees<\/em>)\u00a0in discussing\u00a0the &#8216;beauty of the outcast,&#8217;\u00a0Sargent\u00a0presented his novel\u00a0<em>The Boston Castrato<\/em>\u00a0(Barbican Press, London), which was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker prize. FMI, visit\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk994431\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colinwsargent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.colinwsargent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><em>Portland Monthly<\/em> Designer Tops Industry<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0006sm.jpg\" alt=\"Meaghan Maurice\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Portland Monthly\u00a0is proud to announce that our Design Director, <strong>Meaghan Maurice<\/strong>, has been selected as one of FOLIO&#8217;s \u201c30 Under 30\u201d honorees along with rising stars\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>,\u00a0Cond<span class=\"m_3127530497848169521m_-8856757314416796264m_-4860083267768224941m_5895106447085069710m_761476562797167414m_6956110209962079449m_8379679544037553016m_-674979453062340339m_4883236883838588107gmail-st\">\u00e9<\/span>\u00a0Nast,\u00a0GQ,\u00a0<em>Men&#8217;<wbr \/>s Health,\u00a0Playboy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Glamour<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>InStyle<\/em>. FOLIO is\u00a0the leading professional\u00a0publishing\u00a0resour<wbr \/>ce behind the\u00a0magazine and digital media industry&#8217;s largest conference, The FOLIO Show;\u00a0the premier\u00a0publishing trade publication <em>FOLIO Magazine<\/em>; and numerous\u00a0acclaimed\u00a0enterprises<wbr \/>\u00a0critical to the promotion of the publishing business. To see the full list, visit\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/events\/folio-30-under-30-awards-luncheon-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/events\/folio-30-under-30-awards-luncheon-2017\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1503498975100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1X2brp8Xr384dPxFOn9HPV-xEdw\">http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/<wbr \/>events\/folio-30-under-30-award<wbr \/>s-luncheon-2017\/<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">.\u00a0<\/span>The presentation of\u00a0awards will be celebrated with a luncheon at Hilton Midtown in Manhattan on October 10. \u201cThe FOLIO: 30 Under 30 is a collection of the brightest magazine media individuals under the age of 30 who are executing on some of our industry\u2019s most innovative ideas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The team at 31-year-old <em>Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0is celebrating but is not surprised by\u00a0Meaghan&#8217;s success, which\u00a0not only represents the innovative, creative character of our publication but of Portland, Maine, and its entire creative population. Meaghan began her career\u00a0as our Design Intern and progressed\u00a0to the position of Design Director, the leader of our\u00a0Graphic Department. Her thoughtful designs and beautiful photos have time and time again shown our readers that we are Maine&#8217;s City Magazine. Meaghan&#8217;s work embodies our goals.\u00a0<em>Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0offers an extraordinary perspective that has made us a favorite for readers and lovers of Maine. Meaghan captures that spirit month by month in the pages of\u00a0<em>Portland Monthly<\/em>.\u00a0You can view Meaghan\u2019s work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2017\/08\/portland-monthly-design-director-honored-by-folio\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2017\/08\/portland-monthly-design-director-honored-by-folio\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1503498975100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH27hSdRrj4WjlYFTb2-_XGpxGQQg\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Founding\u00a0editor &amp; publisher Colin W. Sargent&#8217;s\u00a0short story <em>Dirty Night Bingo<\/em> is a\u00a0finalist for\u00a0the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lineofadvance.org\/colonel-darren-l-wright-contest\/#.WQsvvlKZNUQ\">2017\u00a0Col. Darron L. Wright Award<\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Letter from\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from-1024x974.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from-200x190.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from-368x350.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Colin-Letter-from.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Founding\u00a0editor &amp; publisher Colin W. Sargent&#8217;s\u00a0short story <em>Dirty Night Bingo<\/em> is a\u00a0finalist for\u00a0the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lineofadvance.org\/colonel-darren-l-wright-contest\/#.WQsvvlKZNUQ\">2017\u00a0Col. Darron L. Wright Award<\/a><\/span>, conducted by <i>Line of Advance, <\/i>a venue that<i>\u00a0<\/i>&#8220;provides a curated platform for the best in writing and other visual arts from American military veterans\u2026Fitzgerald and Bierce, Vonnegut and Hemingway, O&#8217;Brien and Salinger. Some of the finest writers in American history served in the U.S. military during times of war.\u00a0<i>Line of Advance\u00a0<\/i>is a non-profit literary journal committed to providing a platform for the voices of the next wave of great American writers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read <em>Dirty Night Bingo<\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lineofadvance.org\">online<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Maine Sunday Telegram<\/span>:<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Book review: Real, imagined characters make memorable music in <em>The Boston Castrato<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Colin W. Sargent&#8217;s 1920s novel hits all the right notes on accuracy and fervor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What a dream! What a song! Portland author Colin W. Sargent\u2019s second novel, <em>The Boston Castrato<\/em>, is a whirlwind tale, abounding in fully realized historical and imagined characters, with convincing yet phantasmagoric settings that suggest a mild hallucinogen. Storylines appear to veer in all directions, but never fear, there is a core trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shot through with wordplay that a few readers might term cruel and unusual punishment, the book is a nonstop delight to read. In spite of what the title might seem to suggest, it proves a love story.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inner-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"article-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"article-additional-photos\">\n<div class=\"photo-scale\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multifiles.pressherald.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/1051915_249328-castrato.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-credit\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nugget-box article-asset-freeform\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>The Boston Castrato<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0By Colin W. Sargent. Barbican Press, London. Paperback. 292 pages. $17.95.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the epic story of one Raffi Pesca, a Naples street urchin taken in by a creepy but earnest talent scout of a priest in 1906. The price of this ecclesiastical largesse is Raffi\u2019s manhood. The reward: some gold coins and the gift of an extraordinary singing voice. However, high church officials, in a fit of early-20th century political correctness, defrock the priest, close his operation down and inform him that the \u201cchurch is no longer in the monster business.\u201d As with so many situations Raffi will soon encounter, this is the twilight of a tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not knowing quite what to do with the maimed child, church fathers rename him Rafaele Peach, give him a ticket to America, a start in the new world in a Bronx orphanage smack in the shadow of a neon sign for Underwood deviled ham. That sign, ubiquitous in the Northeast, will play a role over time and place, as both symbol and physical prop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adventures move our hero to Boston, Italy and back to the Yankee hub of the universe in the early 1920s, where a bewildering series of events ensnares and informs the now half-worldly, half-na\u00efve but ever-ripening Peach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At its widest scope, <em>The Boston Castrato<\/em>, is a first-rate picaresque, which should be read for the pure pleasure of the story, characters and ambiance. There are more circles than \u201cThe Divine Comedy,\u201d as Sargent weaves together an investigation of the sterilization and sealing of \u201cbad clams,\u201d the unfolding of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and Ezra Pound\u2019s savaging of poet Amy Lowell\u2019s imagism as \u201camygism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Truly, though, it is Sargent\u2019s impressive knowledge of place, time, people and spirit that sets the novel spinning on its own internal axis. Indeed, the author states that his insight into Naples was largely gained during his hitch in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and, though the story only resides there briefly, it is most convincing. The reader is bound to ask where Sargent gained such a wondrous, convincing understanding of the Boston literary, cultural and criminal life in the 1920s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a great fan of that time and place, then in its gaudy twilight, this reviewer stands in awe of the historical assuredness of place and character-driven pace. Much of the action surges in and around the grand Parker House, a surviving icon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the blare of the 1913 Armory Show and Jazz Age swamp the bohemian Brahmins and their minions, and as gifted amateurs are overtaken by professionals, one enters a fantastic world not available in a Frommer\u2019s Guide list of worthies, available nowhere else that I am aware of, at least not in such honesty and resplendence. The characters may all wear masks, but in the end they reveal parts of themselves in sober honesty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the end too, Boston Brahmin poet Amy Lowell and her presumed literary executioner both lie entombed in the same academic encyclopedias, each given their own devil\u2019s due. As for Mr. Peach, he takes his place among literature\u2019s delightful and original characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u2013Review by William David Barry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FMI about <em>The Boston Castrato<\/em>, visit www.colinwsargent.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>February 12, 2016<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Associate Publisher Jesse Stenbak profiled in<\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/first-person\/jesse-stenbak.html\">Keene State Today Magazine<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-02-12 at 2.41.19 PM\" width=\"1383\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM.png 1383w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM-200x134.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-12-at-2.41.19-PM-520x350.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1383px) 100vw, 1383px\" \/><\/h1>\n<section class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"lede\"><strong>My brother Saul took a photography class in high school, and he seemed to really enjoy it, so when I got to high school, I took the class too. I really got into it, and I joined the school paper to take pictures.<\/strong> This was in Nashua, New Hampshire, where I grew up. I followed Saul to Keene State, and because of my high school experience I showed up in Elliot Hall for the first meeting of the year of the <em>Equinox<\/em>, the student newspaper. It became evident in short order that the person they had hired to be their photo editor did not know how to process film, which was very important in those days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lede\"><strong>So within the first couple weeks of freshman year, I was the photo editor of the <em>Equinox<\/em>, because I knew how to develop film.<\/strong> The next year, the <em>Equinox<\/em> office moved to the new student center, and I became the first person to use the new darkroom there \u2013 and the only person, it turned out, because within a couple of years we were transitioning to digital<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">I initially thought I\u2019d be a history major, but I was hanging out all the time with the <em>Equinox<\/em> writers and editors, so I decided to go into journalism. I spent probably 50 hours a week at the paper. I shot one or two sports events every weekend, and all the big concerts, and did a variety of pickup assignments. We got to do a lot of things up close and personal. <strong>Bill Clinton came right after he was elected, and it was cold and I had to stand outside on a press podium for four hours. But that\u2019s part of the job.<\/strong><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">Another time three or four of us went down to Washington, DC, to cover a march for women\u2019s rights. We got on a bus with a bunch of people from Keene State and rode all night. When we got there we covered the event, the writers wrote about it and I took photos, and we came back and put it in the next issue.I minored in film because my girlfriend, now my wife, was a film major. I met Tori (Horr) the first day of classes my sophomore year, which was her freshman year.I got a job at the <em>Monadnock Ledger<\/em> down the road in Peterborough right after graduation.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">My first assignment was a Memorial Day photo shoot. I remember it particularly well because the photo lab we used had processed my slide film as negative film, so my very first professional experience did not turn out so well. I managed to salvage one photo, though. My job was to take pictures and to scan developed negatives and slides and digitally tone them. <strong>I saw a digital camera for the very first time on New Year\u2019s Day in 1999, when the marionette theater in Peterborough burned down. A guy from the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> came up to shoot photos, and he came into our offices to upload the files back to Boston.<\/strong> It was a very exciting time, with production and photography switching over to digital. At the time, I didn\u2019t want to make the change to digital photography, because it seemed like we were losing so much quality. But then I realized that with digital I could shoot 400 pictures as opposed to 32. At the Ledger I had an assignment or two that didn\u2019t turn out quite right, and I had to go back and reshoot. But you don\u2019t realize it\u2019s not quite right until you go to the darkroom and process the film. And if it\u2019s production night, you\u2019re really in a pickle. Now you can look at the photo instantly and know if it\u2019s a keeper.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<aside class=\"image full\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/first-person\/images\/jesse-stenbak-inset.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"quote full\"><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"quote full\"><strong>\u201cThe tag line of the magazine is \u2018Extraordinary Perspectives,\u2019 so we try to find neat, weird facts about things that you didn\u2019t necessarily know \u2013 but as soon as our readers read them, they\u2019re like, Oh!\u201d<\/strong><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"quote full\"><\/aside>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">After nine months at the Ledger, I moved to Seattle with my brother, and Tori joined us after she finished up at Keene State. While I was out there, I finished a one-year diploma program in print production at the Art Institute of Seattle.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">Tori and I came back to New England after a year, and we got married.We were living at her parents\u2019 house south of Bangor, Maine, and coming in to Portland every day to look for jobs. I ended up working for about four weeks at a print shop, and then I saw a listing for an opening at <em>Portland Magazine<\/em> in Sunday\u2019s paper. <strong>I sent my resume in on the way to work on Monday, and Tuesday I got a call from the publisher asking me to come in for an interview in an hour. He hired me on the spot.<\/strong> I was production manager from 2000 to 2009, and I\u2019ve been associate publisher since then. My job has evolved over the years. When I first started, we had to collect for output all the files, and then put them on double-sided DVDs. Each DVD took an hour and a half to copy. So I\u2019d start a disk then I\u2019d go home, come back two hours later, in the middle of the night, flip it, start to reburn it. Nowadays when I send a file, my computer automatically connects all the pdfs for me, and that takes about 30 minutes, and I upload the files to the printer, and that takes 40 minutes. I slowly took on more duties, assigning more stories, managing some staff members. Now my average day may start with an editorial meeting, making sure we\u2019ve assigned stories and brainstorming ideas for stories, and then I might talk to the designer about graphics, and then to the ad department, making sure they\u2019ve met their goals. Then changing lightbulbs. I even personally once a month go out and deliver magazines to hotels and visitors centers.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><strong>We\u2019ve gotten bigger. Our big issue last summer was 272 pages. That\u2019s a big magazine. And we still produce it with a staff of eight people. We\u2019re a small, nimble publication. If we want to change a story at the last minute or add a story before we go to press, we can do that.<\/strong> Our readers are both locals and tourists. The locals really love our profiles of people who live around town and discovering new restaurants. The tourists are looking for things to do when they visit. The tag line of the magazine is \u2018Extraordinary Perspectives,\u2019 so we try to find neat, weird, strange facts about things that you didn\u2019t necessarily know, but as soon as our readers read them, they\u2019re like, Oh! We go to extraordinary lengths to find out even the smallest facts to make the story so much better.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">A couple of years ago, the city of Portland voted to elect its mayor rather than have the council appoint one of its own members. People knew about the vote, but no one understood that the reason Portland did not have an elected mayor was the Ku Klux Klan, back in the \u201930s, didn\u2019t want the Irish and Italians to run the city. The newspapers were writing about the ballot initiative itself, but we gave the story historical context.We ran a fun story a while back about the Elliotts, the family of comedians.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><strong>One of our interns spotted Abby Elliot, who was on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, in Portland. Her dad, Chris Elliot, was in the movie <em>Something About Mary<\/em>, and his dad, Bob Elliot, is from the <em>Bob and Ray Show<\/em>.. So we Googled and found out the whole family summers in Maine.<\/strong> But how could we get in touch with them? We went through the press office of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and that didn\u2019t work. We tried to reach Chris Elliot and that didn\u2019t work. We couldn\u2019t find Bob\u2019s phone number \u2013 it was unlisted \u2013 but we did figure out what road he lived on. So I said, Find out what businesses are on that road. Antique shop a quarter mile from his house? Call the shop. So we called the antique shop, they said, Oh, I know Bob, he lives next door. Can you tell Bob to call us? And Bob called us, and that led to an interview with the whole family. It turned out to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2011\/04\/live-from-harpswell-%E2%80%A6the-barrymores-of-comedy\/\">great story<\/a>.<\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/\">Portland Monthly Magazine<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2011\/04\/live-from-harpswell-%E2%80%A6the-barrymores-of-comedy\/\">\u201cThe Barrymores of Comedy\u201d<\/a><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"content\">Most of my time is spent either at work or with the family. Tori and I have a son, Eli, he\u2019s eight. Then we have five-year-old twins, Iris and Esme. They\u2019re a handful. We love living in the Portland area. There are concerts and restaurants and all sorts of plays and ballet \u2013 it\u2019s a cultural hub for Maine. And close to Boston. Tori is the volunteer manager for Preble Street, which is a homeless shelter, teen shelter, women\u2019s shelter, food pantry, and soup kitchen. At <em>Portland Magazine<\/em>, we provide a service to the community, too. We sell an ad, we try to make sure it\u2019s going to work for the client. We write a story, we try to make sure it\u2019s actually interesting to people. <strong>We want to say something that\u2019s interesting, and we try to do what we do better than anyone else.<\/strong><\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June 17, 2013<\/p>\n<h1><i>Portland Magazine<\/i>\u00a0Founding Editor &amp; Publisher is Awarded Ph.D. in Creative Writing<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/colin08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/colin08.jpg\" alt=\"colin08\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Colin W. Sargent has earned his Ph.D. in Creative Writing. Dr. Sargent successfully defended his dissertation at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. His research is in cognitive literary studies that explore reading as an out-of-body experience. The result is both a 380-page novel\u00a0and a companion exegesis,\u00a0<i>The Negative Mirror.\u00a0<\/i>\u201cInstead of reflecting, it allows you as a reader to disappear completely into a fictional universe,\u201d Sargent says. His external examiner was novelist Dr. Martin Goodman (<i>Look Who\u2019s Watching<\/i>), director of the Philip Larkin Centre at University of Hull; his internal examiner was Dr. Jayne Steel (screenplay for the BBC Audience Award-winning psychological thriller\u00a0<i>Frozen<\/i>)<i>.<\/i>\u00a0His Ph.D. mentor Dr. George Green (<i>Hound<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Hawk<\/i>) is the Creative Writing Ph.D. Program Director at Lancaster University, and his supervisor is Dr. Lee Horsley, a senior lecturer in English at Lancaster and an international expert in crime fiction (<i>The Noir Thriller<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Sargent earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in English at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. He was a member of the inaugural graduating class of 2004 at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine; is a former board member at Maine Writers and \u00a0Publishers Alliance (MWPA); and served for five years on the board of trustees of Maine Reads. Sargent is a Maine Touring Artist and was named a 2002 fellow in\u00a0literature by the Maine Arts Commission.<\/p>\n<p>His first novel,\u00a0<i>Museum of Human Beings<\/i>\u00a0(McBooks, 2009), stalks the imaginary life and times of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea\u2019s son. His new novel,\u00a0<i>Hiding Nothing<\/i>,\u00a0takes place in Italy in 1903 and Boston in 1922, where his main character, Raffi Peach, is a clairvoyant concierge at the Parker House and s\u00e9ances are the social media.<\/p>\n<p>Featured by MediaBistro for daring to go \u201cbeyond the usual\u201d and selected for the New York Public Library\u2019s permanent collection for its \u201coriginal regional coverage and literary merit,&#8221; Sargent\u2019s\u00a0<i>Portland Magazine<\/i>, est. 1985, has just released Summerguide 2013, a newsstand favorite which sets records in ad pages and covers conceptual terrain such as \u201cDream Islands,\u201d \u201cWabi-Sabi Maine,\u201d and the first short story published by playwright John Cariani\u00a0(<i>Almost, Maine<\/i>). For 27 years,\u00a0<i>Portland Magazine<\/i>\u00a0has offered\u00a0original fiction, featuring stories by writers including Mameve Medwed, Sebastian Junger, Diane Lefer, 2013 Midland Authors Award-winner Jack Driscoll, John Buffalo Mailer, Rick Moody (<i>The Ice Storm<\/i>), and interviews with Maine-connected writers \u201cfrom Stephen King to Marguerite Yourcenar to Annie Proulx. We have also published stories by emerging stars such as Joan Connor (AWP winner for\u00a0<i>History Lessons<\/i>) and Morgan Callan Rogers (<i>Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea<\/i>).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sargent sought the Ph.D., the culmination\u00a0of five years of concentrated study,\u00a0\u201cso I could take the magazine\u2019s writing to the next level and at the same time demystify the process for our contributors, many of whom connect with their first readers with us.\u201d Among the\u00a0<i>Portland Monthly\u00a0<\/i>alumni\u00a0who\u2019ve met with publishing success: Hannah Holmes (<i>The Secret Life of Dust<\/i>), Jason Brown (<i>Driving the Heart<\/i>), and Gwen Thompson (<i>Men Beware Women<\/i>). &#8220;There is such great talent in and around Maine. I love sharing it with our audience,\u201d Sargent says.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmagazine.com\/\">www.portlandmagazine.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">October 15, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em>Portland Magazine <\/em>congratulates our former intern <\/span>Gwen Thompson<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> on the publishing of her novel <\/span><em>Men Beware Women<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">. <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Men-Beware-Women-Gwen-Thompson\/dp\/1881163512\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348839035&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=men+beware+women \" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more info on Gwen and her fabulous work of fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">October 12 <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em> Business section:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">AWARDS and RECOGNITION<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u2022\u00a0<em>Portland Magazine<\/em> won nine national prizes at the American Graphic Design Awards for design excellence by Graphic Design USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Congratulations to our 2006 editorial intern Esm\u00e9 E. Deprez for her new position as a reporter of <em>Business Week<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>16 September 2009<\/p>\n<h2><em>Portland Magazine <\/em>Wins 5 National Prizes at the 2009 American Graphic Design Awards<\/h2>\n<p>New York\u2014<em>Portland Magazine<\/em> captures five prizes at the prestigious national American Graphic Design Awards for design excellence in ceremonies conducted in Manhattan by Graphic Design USA.<\/p>\n<p>The American Graphic Design Awards is a nationwide juried competition from one of the most respected design industry resources. The awards have been presented for over three decades, and the judges are composed of industry leaders in all aspects of graphic design.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Design USA\u2019s prize announcement of the awards, including the individual issues of Portland Magazine that received the honors:<\/p>\n<p>CONGRATULATIONS!<\/p>\n<p>You have been selected as a winner in the 2009 AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS.<\/p>\n<p>For more than four decades, Graphic Design USA has sponsored national design competitions that spotlight areas of excellence and opportunity for creative professionals. The American Graphic Design Awards is the biggest and broadest of these, open to everyone in the community: advertising agencies, graphic design firms, corporations, institutions, publishers and more. It honors outstanding work of all kinds and across all media.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth straight year, we saw a remarkable 8,000+ entries; of these, a highly selective 15 percent are recognized with Awards of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Portland Magazine, Winterguide 2008<br \/>\nPortland Magazine, February\/March 2008<br \/>\nPortland Magazine, Summerguide 2008<br \/>\nPortland Magazine, December 2008<br \/>\nPortland Magazine, February\/March 2009<\/p>\n<p>Again, congratulations and best wishes.<br \/>\nGordon Kaye\u2013Editor\/Publisher, Graphic Design USA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rachel Goldberg\u2013Awards Director<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome magazines may win around two to three multiple awards, but it\u2019s very difficult to win five,\u201d says awards director Rachel Goldberg, noting \u201cI believe Portland Magazine\u2019s awards for excellence in publication design are the only ones north of Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portland Magazine also won multiple American Graphic Design Awards for Design Excellence in 2007 and 2008, as well as six national graphic-design awards for front cover art direction at the annual Maggie Zine Awards sponsored by NewsStand Resource magazine of Greensboro, North Carolina, including First Prize and Best in Show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to open our silver anniversary celebrations to begin our 25th year,\u201d says Robert Witkowski, Portland Magazine\u2019s design director.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of award winners will be published in the December 2009 GDUSA Design Annual. Previous publication winners include Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s SELF, USA Today Weekend Magazine, and BusinessWeek.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Attention: Events &amp; Culture Listings Editors<\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-892\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 12px;\" title=\"mohb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mohb-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"mohb\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mohb-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mohb.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Book Signing &amp; Reading Schedule<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Museum of Human Beings\u00a0(McBooks, hardcover, $23.95)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The acclaimed new novel by Colin Sargent about the fantastic life and times of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea\u2019s son, famous \u201cexpedition papoose\u201d of the Lewis &amp; Clark Expedition\u2026Whatever happened to that boy?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhumanbeings.com\/\">www.museumofhumanbeings.com<\/a> for background info and a media page with downloadable cover art &amp; author photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Please include in your books, arts, and entertainment calendar. **For book-cover art and updates, visit \u201cMedia\u201d at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhumanbeings.com\/\">www.museumofhumanbeings.com<\/a>.:<\/p>\n<h4>3 November, 7 p.m., Reading &amp; Book Discussion, Dyer Library, 371 Main Street, Saco, Maine 04072. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sacomuseum.org\">www.sacomuseum.org<\/a> or call 283-3861.<\/h4>\n<h4>29 November, noon to 3 p.m., Reading and Book Signing, L.L. Bean Retail Store, Main Street, Freeport, ME 04032. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbean.com\">www.llbean.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>5 December, 2 p.m., Reading &amp; Book Signing, Borders, 430 Gorham Road, Maine Mall, South Portland, Maine 04106, 207-775-6110<\/h4>\n<h4>13 December, noon to 3 p.m., Encore Reading and Book Signing, L.L Bean Retail Store, Maine Street, Freeport, ME 04032. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbean.com\">www.llbean.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSpellbinding\u201d\u2014starred review in Library Journal<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cStylish\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cHeart-Wrenching\u201d\u2014Smithsonian Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRich with unusual historical detail.\u201d\u2014Denver Post<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe sweeping American adventure novel \u201cMuseum of Human Beings\u201d by Portland publisher, playwright and poet Colin Sargent is one of the most satisfying works of fiction that I have read in years.\u201d\u2014Maine Sunday Telegram<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Playwright Sargent\u2019s debut novel is a stylish look at the fate of Sacagawea\u2019s baby son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the first Native American to tour Europe\u2014as a curiosity and entertainment, of course. Twenty-four-year-old Sacagawea, though married, becomes William Clark\u2019s lover while helping guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition; after she dies on the trail, Clark adopts her son, Baptiste. Soon, Clark establishes his home in St. Louis, as well as a garish museum dedicated to his expedition, and sets to educating his new son. Soon, Baptiste is traveling Europe under the protection of Duke Paul, a cruel man who, when he isn\u2019t exhibiting the boy to royal courts, repeatedly rapes young Baptiste. Six years later, Baptiste returns to America (astonishingly, still accompanied by Paul), where he confronts Clark over his mother\u2019s mysterious death; unsatisfied and restless, Baptiste heads west and finds work as a fur trapper, an Army scout and gold prospector. Increasingly haunted by his mother, Baptiste revisits her in memories and visions that lend themselves nicely to Sargent\u2019s lyrical prose. With historical cameos (Beethoven, Kit Carson, Washington Irving) and an impressively rounded portrait of the laid-back, introspective, nomadic Baptiste, this novel will satisfy fans of American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>\u2013 <\/strong><strong><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Authors on <\/strong><strong><em>Museum of Human Beings<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYikes, there\u2019s a market for this. It\u2019s timely, it has feminist appeal, it has race appeal, it\u2019s so American. The direction of American Literature has been from the East Coast to the West. There\u2019s a new trend reversing this, a trend that whispers, \u2018Somehow we are weary itinerants. Somehow the dream has failed.\u2019 <em>Museum of Human Beings<\/em> is an unraveling of the patriarchy. It\u2019s spooky like Hawthorne with a Toni-Morrison-like sense of place. It\u2019s a huge and important story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2013<strong> Joan Connor, AWP Award winner, for <\/strong><strong><em>History Lessons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIn pulsating prose that triggers all of the senses, <em>Museum of Human Beings<\/em> takes us on a spirited journey to discover the far-flung life of Sacagawea\u2019s son. Smart, imaginative, and historically-informed, this novel contains heartbreaks of many dimensions, all of them believable and thought-provoking. It captivated me, start to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2013 <strong>Bunny McBride, Pulitzer nominee and author of <\/strong><strong><em>Women of the Dawn<\/em><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><em>Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMagic. There is real heart to <em>Museum of Human Beings<\/em>, real depth and humanity, and in addition a plot that propels this reader forward. Full of polish and authority, as well as a story both cared-about and clearly imagined. I stand to applaud his talent. He\u2019s the real thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2013<strong> Jack Driscoll, <\/strong><strong><em>How Like an Angel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cA grand and interesting romp through history, an intriguing, masterfully written novel about a little-known person in history, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the child of Sacagawea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2013<strong> Michael C. White, <\/strong><strong><em>Soul Catcher<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>\u2022 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainebiz.biz\/news44805.html?Type=search\" target=\"_blank\">June 29 2009 edition of <em>Mainebiz<\/em><\/a> &#8220;Portland Magazine recently set an all-time advertising sales record of $229,619 with its Summerguide 2009 issue.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 4, 2009<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ahead of the Recovery Curve<br \/>\nPortland Magazine breaks all advertising records with Summerguide 2009<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-876\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" title=\"pm-sg09cov\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pm-sg09cov-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"pm-sg09cov\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pm-sg09cov-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pm-sg09cov.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning Portland Magazine, the city magazine for Maine, launched Maine\u2019s summer with a big splash by setting an all-time advertising sales record of $229,619.22 with the highly anticipated Summerguide 2009 issue. \u201cThis is the biggest magazine we\u2019ve had in 23 years-232 luxurious pages that convey the three-dimensional, enveloping, dynamic panorama that is our beautiful state,\u201d says founding editor and publisher Colin Sargent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is dazzling proof that print media-if the ideas and images are seductive and stunning-is thriving. The reader gets the opportunity to stop, take a deep breath, and gain complete control of the experience\u2026linger as long as desired over an image that sparks the imagination. We are an important component of the new media. We are the observation point-a tangible scenic outlook\/rest area-on the information highway. There\u2019s a reason why other representatives of new media, including The Printed Blog and electronic media such as the Food Network and Oprah have chosen to make a print version of their products: They recognize there\u2019s no substitute for the experience of being drawn into a gorgeous magazine layout while you feel an incredible story sweep you away. The electronic world must have a beautiful front door, living room, and lounge. Portland Magazine has won 15 national design awards in the last three years; continued promoting fiction, with stars like Sebastian Junger, Sarah Graves, and Rick Moody contributing; and always provides an extraordinary perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Summerguide 2009 issue features interview with Rachel Nichols, the Maine native who is lighting up the screen in this summer\u2019s blockbuster movies Star Trek and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Portland Magazine\u2019s classic story \u201cDream Islands\u201d features complete islands for sale off the smoky coast of Maine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful to our advertisers, who support and enhance this experience for our readers, for having the foresight to share in the benefits of connecting with them. We\u2019re also grateful to the many members of Maine\u2019s artistic community who so wonderfully express themselves here and appreciate the support of our advertisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having fun here, and it shows,\u201d Sargent says.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022March 2007 \u2028\u2028Portland Magazine wins national cover award for the third time! Congratulations. You&#8217;ve done it again! Your cover, Portland Magazine, February\/March 2006, placed 1st in Category 3 &#8211; Circulation 10,000 to 74,999,in the 2006 NewsStand Resource cover contest. Your winning cover is featured in the spring 2007 issue of NewsStand Resource which will be distributed at the annual MPA Retail Conference in early March.\u2028\u2028In addition, your winning cover (along with all winning covers placing 1,2 or 3 in all categories) is entered into the Readers&#8217; Choice Cover Contest (winners to be announced in April 2007). The top three covers will befeatured in the Summer 2007 issue of NewsStand Resource which will be distributed at the annual PBAA Convention in late June.\u2028\u2028A formal press release will go out to the industry early next week. We will\u2028mail your plaque and certificate with a copy of the spring issue shortly.\u2028\u2028Sincerely,\u2028\u2028Frances Becker\u2028Publisher\u2028NewsStand Resource<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 2007 \u2028\u2028Multiple fiction contributor John Michael Cummings, who published his first short story with Portland Magazine in 1991, is getting his debut novel published by Penguin in early 2008. The House of My Father is a modern-day, coming-of-age literary novel about a troubled boy who finds a father figure in the abolitionist John Brown. For more info about the author, visit www.johnmichaelcummings.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Monthly\u00a0Wins\u00a0Three National Prizes at the 2019 American Graphic Design Awards. 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