“PART FOR THE HOLE” – book launch with author Peter Gould

Postponed – due to a publishing matter.  As soon as we have the rescheduled date, it will be posted. Stay tuned! 

At a time of increasing politicization of the idea of arts support, this new novel, PART FOR THE HOLE, puts the reader into the mind and heart of a mild-mannered High School teacher who decides to rescue the National Endowment for the Arts all by himself—with the help of his sometime-lover and a bunch of his AP English students. They realize it’s time to take a stand, to not allow every working artist to disappear into a corporate world that could ask for their soul in return for their success. But be advised: no artists, teachers, students, or administrators were harmed in the writing or reading of this story: it’s all theater, all metaphor!

“Sentence by nimble sentence, Gould gallivants through his story, and I follow

his jazzy solo phrases, hoping that this book never ends.”

Peter Coyote, old hipster, author, actor, Zen Buddhist priest.

PART FOR THE HOLE will be published by Whetstone Books in April, 2026. Brooks Memorial Library is honored to host this book launch event. All are welcome!

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Peter Gould founded (in 1998) and still directs the “Get Thee to the Funnery” youth Shakespeare camp in the Northeast Kingdom. For his work with theater and creative writing students around Vermont, he earned the Arts Council’s 2016 Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Arts Educator of the Year Award.