From the Desk… Vermont authors put themselves in the right place
Location, location, location. Okay, that’s about real estate, not literature. But plenty of authors do get attached to the spot in which they compose their novels, short stories and verse. Not to mention when, and with whom, and to which music they write. Sheffield poet Galway Kinnell goes for Vivaldi. Tunbridge novelist Jeffrey Lent grooves…
Short-Order Fiction: Five Vermont writers come to the same conclusion
She hoped the rope would hold. That’s all we knew for certain. But who was she? What was she doing with the rope? And how had she gotten into such a bind? We needed to know but we didn’t have all day. So we brought our last line — She hoped the rope would hold…
Package Deal: Taking a reading on a publishing trend
Burlington writer Chris Tebbetts has made the submission rounds. Determined to break into the young-readers’ market, he spent two years sending picture-book texts to publishers and stories to magazines. Then a New York friend who had penned an entry in the Sweet Valley High series suggested that he contact 17th Street Productions. A few months…
Miscarriage of Justice: Theater review: Execution of Justic
Harvey Milk will never share the legendary status of Dr. Martin Luther King. Even in the gay community, his brutal assassination in 1978 doesn’t resound like the deaths of that civil rights leader, John F. Kennedy or Malcolm X. Few people solemnly discuss what they were doing when they heard the beloved San Francisco activist…
“The Ventilator” Winner of the 2002 Emerging Writers Competition
CONGRATULATIONS to Jeremiah Cook of Burlington for taking top honors in the 2002 Seven Days Emerging Writers Competition, co-sponsored and underwritten by the Professional Writing Degree Program at Champlain College. His story, “The Ventilator,” is printed on these pages. He will also take home a $250 cash prize, proving that writing fiction can pay, however…
Hackie
A snarling 14-year-old walked by my cab. He paused just long enough to glare at me and shoot me some bad vibes. His T-shirt said, “Don’t Make Me Get Out My Flying Monkeys,” which I thought was actually pretty funny. It was a recent weekday night, and I was idling at the Main Street taxi…
Flick Chick
the rest of the fest… Eclectic is not a strong enough word to describe this week’s first annual Manchester Film Festival, which will offer a global grab bag of people, places and products. Cinematic selections come from such far-flung lands as Sri Lanka, Turkey, Belgium, Romania and Israel, but organizers plan to give their “legend-in-film”…
The Nasty Boys? Burlington City Council abandons the Bernie Beach idea
The Jim Douglas for Governor campaign took some nice bites out of Democrat Doug Racine’s leg last week. Mr. Douglas took out a big ad in The Burlington Free Press titled “Doug Racine: Bad For Jobs.” It was composed of surgically selected press quotes that put Racine in an unfavorable light. And luck was with…
