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Arts + Culture
The Distant Snowy Mountain: a Short Story
The boy and the girl meet at the edge of the playground, away from the swings and slides, away from the shouting and giggling… -
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Book Review: 'The Woods,' Janice Obuchowski
Janice Obuchowski's award-winning debut collection of short stories, The Woods, opens with "The Cat," an eerie tale of a neurotic writing professor arriving in… -
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Bennington Review Wins Prestigious Literary Prize
A literary journal based at Bennington College, Bennington Review, is a winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. One of five magazines recognized… -
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Fiction: Concerning the
LossTriumph of the 'VSS Conquest'OFFICIAL REPORT: Let the abject failure resounding success of Captain Arvo and her ship, the VSS Conquest, be known. We commissioned the VSS Conquest… -
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North Country Author Russell Banks On His Latest Novel, 'Foregone'
In one respect, the coronavirus pandemic — freighted with a monk-like mantra of distancing and isolation — has been a boon to upstate New… -
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'The Bicycle,' Fiction by Stephen Kiernan
If you are very lucky, there will be one day in your life on which your brother becomes your hero. I was hoofing home… -
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Book Review: 'Heart Spring Mountain' by Robin MacArthur
Robin MacArthur resides on the hillside in Marlboro where she was born. She is a third-generation Vermonter and granddaughter of legendary folk-music collector and… -
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Book Review: 'Before We Sleep' by Jeffrey Lent
Let me be frank: It took me forever to read Before We Sleep. That's not a criticism. It has to do with how Vermont… -
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'Moriah': A Work of Dark Fiction Set in Vermont
Homegrown author Daniel Mills has gained a bit of a following in the horror community over the past few years. Since 2009, the Vermont… -
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Under Sharp White Stars: Fiction
They were standing in the driveway beneath the dry black sky and the sharp white stars. The snow was deep and clean and everywhere.… -
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Saturday Morning Babka: A Short Story
How about you give me some of that whatchamacallit of yours, Ron says to Doris, pouring himself coffee from the scorched aluminum pot. He… -
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Book Review: Half Wild by Robin MacArthur
"I thought then how she looked like she was of this place, like she was some kind of creature or tree that had grown… -
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Midsummer Shivers at Montpelier Reading
“Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay ’til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.” So begins the creepy cover copy for Hex, a novel of… -
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Fantasy Writer Brian Staveley's Epic Success
Tales of dragons and wizard duels weren't always cool. While fantasy fiction has long had its niche audience, Vermont author Brian Staveley says that… -
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Short Story: The Ralston Snow-Blower Collective
Retired guy across the street, Buster McGrath, is a get-things-done sort of guy. I know this because sometimes, when his garage door is open,… -
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Short Story: Belinda Gets a Raise
On the Middle Road, just around the curve below Harts', a scene. Accident? Three State Police cruisers, one pulled onto the shoulder, the others… -
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Book Fest Preview: Coming of Age in Colombia
In this monthly Live Culture feature, I review the first 50 pages of a local book — and sometimes, if I feel like it, more.… -
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Is 'Luminous Toxin' Real, and Should We Care?
Rudolph Maté’s 1950 film noir D.O.A. is rightly regarded as a classic of this style of filmmaking. It has all the requisite ingredients: a… -
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Book Review: Music for Wartime: Stories, Rebecca Makkai
Such a wide-ranging imagination is at work in Rebecca Makkai's story collection Music for Wartime, it's hard to know where to start. With Bach… -
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Summer Readings & Rants
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… -
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Quick Lit: Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story by Rebecca Coffey
Rebecca Coffey of Putney has written a novel of psychological drama (quite literally) from the perspective of Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of the… -
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A New Anthology Presents Alternative Voices of Vermont
Ski slopes, microbreweries and farmers markets make no appearances in writer and anthologist Robin MacArthur's literary rendering of Vermont, and Burlington is merely a… -
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Book Review: The Autobiography of Miss Huckleberry Finn by Gina Logan
I don't think many of us read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for fun. Most likely we were made to read it in high school.… -
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Salman Rushdie to Speak in Burlington
The Vermont Humanities Council in Montpelier keeps a list of books, ever expanding, from which the organization chooses one title a year for Vermont… -
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Star Wars Reads Day Comes to Phoenix Books
When's the last time you bumped into Jabba the Hutt or an Imperial Stormtrooper while browsing the best-seller rack? It could happen this Saturday,…
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