Jen Ellis was a second-grade teacher and part-time mitten maker back in 2021 when her life changed on Inauguration Day. A photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders wearing her mittens became a viral meme. Ellis chronicled this unique experience in a new book, Bernie's Mitten Maker.
Vegetarians and skeptics of the cloven-hoofed, beware: Ellyn Gaydos' stellar debut memoir, Pig Years, might have you salivating. Lovers of sumptuous prose, rejoice. Pig…
In 1981, Mark Redmond walked away from a high-paying management training program at Metropolitan Life Insurance in New York City and accepted a live-in…
One of the most insidious things about childhood abuse is that it doesn't end with childhood. Williston author Dominic Bucca portrays the aftermath with…
Jay Parini, a longtime professor of English and creative writing at Middlebury College, is the author of more than 20 books, including poetry, fiction,…
Burlington writer Angela Palm's Riverine: A Memoir From Anywhere But Here won the influential annual Nonfiction Prize from her publisher, Graywolf Press. It arrives…
This weekend at the Bookstock Literary Festival in Woodstock, Howard Axelrod will read from his highly acclaimed memoir, The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of…
Somewhere at the intersection of memoir, fine art and illustration sits "Graphic Lives," a four-artist installation that opens this week at Burlington's New City…
Cartoonist Ellen Forney, who has won acclaim for her 2012 graphic novel/memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me, will visit the area this week to…
Vermont psychologist Polly Young-Eisendrath remembers all the questions she aimed at her husband: Why had he racked up some $70,000 in unexplained credit card…
We love stories about criminal masterminds, real or invented. Hannibal Lecter, Al Capone, Jordan Belfort, Walter White — their stories appeal to our fantasies of…
The Ohio National Guard's fatal shooting of four unarmed Kent State University students roiled Middlebury College in May 1970. The morning after, Vietnam War protesters…
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