An autographed manuscript from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. An unpublished verse penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. An editor’s copy of Phillis Wheatley Peters’…
By Abigail Sylvor Greenberg
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Jun 23, 2023 | Books
I still remember my favorite assignment from high school. It was for Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition my junior year. After the intense…
Bookstock, the Woodstock-based "festival of words," usually happens every July. This year — the fest's 12th — the organizers had already booked 40 authors…
The Burlington Book Festival canceled a planned fundraiser featuring former public radio star Garrison Keillor after a backlash related to his alleged inappropriate workplace…
On Friday afternoon, Burlington City Arts announced that Vermont novelist Howard Frank Mosher is the 2017 recipient of the Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts.…
By Pamela Polston and Mark Davis
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Jan 27, 2017 | Live Culture
Michael Arnowitt has been thinking big again. In 1999, the Montpelier pianist organized a large-scale concert to benefit refugees of the Balkan wars that…
July Readings Concerned about the gentrification of Burlington's South End? You may find like minds at a reading this Saturday celebrating the release of…
Right now New York publishers are counting down to BookExpo America, the mega book-trade fair that takes place late every May in that city. Meanwhile,…
Each of the 13 stories in Shaftsbury writer Megan Mayhew Bergman's engrossing second collection, Almost Famous Women, begins with a photo or painting of…
When Phish announced their imminent breakup in 2004, Shelagh Connor Shapiro found a novel-worthy idea. The short-story author and MFA graduate from Vermont College…
Underneath the counter at Bookworms' Exchange, proprietor Bev Brown keeps two old-fashioned card files: one crammed with the names of active customers who have…
Update, 12:35 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21: A private collector from Marblehead, Mass., purchased the document bearing Jefferson’s signature after bidding $32,500 via telephone. Once…
Milan Kundera once wrote, "The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters." Burlington writer David Huddle's new…
The emphasis is on local at this weekend's Burlington Book Festival, though attendees will spy luminaries from afar, too: Don't miss the 2014 Pulitzer…
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