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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - Adam Plunkett
DESCRIPTION:Adam Plunkett is a literary critic\, has received fellowship support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. His new book is Love and Need: the Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry\, is a demanding and rewarding biography of Frost in which Plunkett threads together Frost’s life with an analysis of his poetry. He lives in New York.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-adam-plunkett/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - Helen Whybrow/Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
DESCRIPTION:Helen Whybrow is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. She was the publisher of an imprint of W. W. Norton for many years before becoming a freelance editor and Editor-at-Large for Orion Magazine. With a focus on creative nonfiction\, Helen has worked with dozens of well-known writers over the years\, including Barry Lopez\, Lauret Savoy\, Robin Kimmerer\, Pico Iyer\, Andrew Lam\, and many others. She has authored two books\, Dead Reckoning and A Man Apart and edited several anthologies\, including Hearth. Her new book is The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Helen studied literature at Amherst College and journalism at Harvard. Also an organic farmer and co-founder of a nonprofit that nurtures leaders working for land justice\, she lives with her family in Vermont. \nChelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of Mother\, Creature\, Kin. She grew up in the Great Plains of Nebraska and Oklahoma. After receiving her masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School\, her writing became focused on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred. From 2017-2022\, she worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine\, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture\, ecology\, and spirituality. Her writing can also be found in The Atlantic\, The Common\, and other publications and in the edited poetry collection Writing the Land\, and in Katie Holten’s The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Rochester\, Vermont.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-helen-whybrow-chelsea-steinauer-scudder/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - Peter Mendelsund/Makenna Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Peter Mendelsund is the author of seven books: including his novel The Delivery; “Gorgeously written; profound.” Michael Cunningham\, author of The Hours)\, the novel Same Same described as: “Breezy and profound in equal measure.” —The New York Times\, the non-fiction works What We See When We Read\, (“Welcome and fascinating” Tim Parks\, The New York Review of Books)\, Cover\, The Look of the Book\, a new novel\, Weepers\, and a new memoir Exhibitionist. Mendelsund has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today\,” and his design work has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “the most instantly recognizable and iconic.” He is the Creative Director of The Atlantic. \nMakenna Goodman is the author of two novels\, Helen of Nowhere and The Shame. She has written literary criticism\, essays\, interviews\, and short fiction for international publications including the New York Review of Books\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Literary Hub\, Catapult\, Harvard Review\, the White Review\, BOMB\, The Common\, ASTRA Magazine\, and MOUSSE. Based in Vermont\, Goodman is also an editor.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-peter-mendelsund-makenna-goodman/
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - Silent Book Group
DESCRIPTION:Silent Book Club is a global community of readers with nearly 2\,000 chapters in 60+ countries. There’s no assigned reading; all readers are welcome—ebooks\, audiobooks\, textbooks\, comic books…it’s BYOBook. Friends and strangers are welcome to gather\, share what they’re reading\, and settle in for an hour or so of sustained silent reading. At the end of the hour\, attendees can socialize—or not! \nTo date\, more than a million members gather in person\, online\, and in destinations around the world to read together and swap stories. All readers are welcome! \nLearn more about Silent Reading Group at: https://silentbook.club/
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-silent-book-group/
LOCATION:Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - New event for kids and their adults!
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Jo Knowles/Glynnis Fawkes are unable to attend.  Fortunately\, debut author Anna Monders will provide a glimpse into her middle-grade novel  TESTED (Aladdin\, March 2026)\, share some favorite children’s book titles and lead some collaborative story-writing fun!
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-jo-knowles-glynnis-fawkes/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Literary Festival - Write Action Spotlight Reading
DESCRIPTION:Write Action writers will present excerpts from their recently published books. Books will be available for purchase at the reading. \nSee the Brattleboro Literary Festival 2025 website for details: https://brattleborolitfest.org/write-action-2023-events/
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-literary-festival-write-action-spotlight-reading/
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SUMMARY:Peter Orner & Pam Petro: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge\, and Maggie Brown & Others\, two collections of essays\, Still No Word From You and Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, Orner’s work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and has been translated into eight ­languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the California Book Award for fiction\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction\, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich\, Vermont. \nPam Petro is an author\, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Spring Creek Project and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Petro is on the creative nonfiction faculty of the Lesley University master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is also a co­founder of the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales. Her new book is The Long Field\, a memoir of Wales.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/peter-orner-pam-petro-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:Jeff Sharlet: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of nine books\, including his new instant bestseller The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War\, and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power\, which was adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award\, the Molly Ivins Prize\, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications\, including Vanity Fair\, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR\, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont in the woods with many animals.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/jeff-sharlet-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:David Gessner & Bill Roorbach: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature\, humor\, memoir\, and environmentalism\, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains\, Return of the Osprey\, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World. Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington\, where he is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine\, Ecotone. He is married to the novelist Nina de Gramont\, whose latest book is The Christie Affair. \n  \nBill Roorbach is an American novelist\, short story and nature writer\, memoirist\, journalist\, blogger and critic. His fiction includes Lucky Turtle\, The Girl of the Lake\, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love\, the bestselling Life Among Giants\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book\, Writing Life Stories\, has been in print for twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, The New York Times Book Review\, Ploughshares\, Granta\, Ecotone\, New York magazine\, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/david-gessner-bill-roorbach-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:Martha McPhee & Robin MacArthur: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Martha McPhee is the author of the forthcoming memoir\, Omega Farm. Her novels include An Elegant Woman\, Dear Money\, L’America\, Gorgeous Lies\, and Bright Angel Time. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2002\, she was nominated for a National Book Award.  McPhee’s novels have been Best Books of The Year on The New York Times\, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune lists and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Vogue\, More\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Self\, Traveler\, and Travel & Leisure\, among many others. McPhee is a tenured member of the English Department at Hofstra University\, where she teaches fiction. She lives in New York City with her children and husband\, the poet and writer Mark Svenvold. \n\n\n\n\nRobin Marie MacArthur lives on the hillside farm where she was born in southern Vermont. Her debut collection of short stories\, HALF WILD\, won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. Her novel\, HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN\, was an IndieNext Selection and a finalist for the New England Book Award. Both of her books have been translated into French and published by Albin Michel. Her essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine\, LitHub\, Hunger Mountain\, The Washington Post\, Shenandoah\, Alaska Quarterly\, and on NPR. Robin is also the editor of CONTEMPORARY VERMONT FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY\, and the recipient of two Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing program and has taught in many non-traditional settings throughout the US including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and Orion Magazine. She is also the founder and director of WORD HOUSE\, an emerging writing space in southern Vermont.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/martha-mcphee-robin-macarthur-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:Kyle Lukoff: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel\, Too Bright To See\, received a Newbery honor\, the Stonewall award\, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall. He has forthcoming books about mermaids\, babies\, apologies\, and lots of other topics. Before becoming a full-time writer\, Kyle worked at five bookstores\, in four libraries\, for three schools\, as two genders\, through one intersection: people\, and books.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/kyle-lukoff-brattleboro-litfest/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Coyotes\, Cockroaches\, & Justice: Building a book for young people (Brattleboro LitFest)
DESCRIPTION:Charlene Allen (author of “Play the Game”) and Dayna Lorentz (author of “Wayward Creatures”) will talk about taking real world concepts of and turning them into fiction. Both “Play the Game” and “Wayward Creatures” introduce audiences to Restorative Justice Circles and how they work in two different contexts – while also telling the riveting stories of young people navigating harm within their respective communities. We’ll have readings from the books\, some fun activities\, snacks\, and a sample restorative justice circle. \n  \nCharlene Allen works with community organizations to heal trauma and fight injustice\, especially the beast called mass incarceration. She received her MFA from The New School\, her JD from Northeastern University\, and her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Brooklyn with her fabulous family and their very silly dog. Play the Game is her debut novel. You can visit her at www.charleneallen.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nDayna Lorentz is the author of the middle grade novels Wayward Creatures and Of a Feather (Clarion Books/HarperCollins Children’s)\, the No Safety in Numbers trilogy (Speak/Penguin Random House) and the Dogs of the Drowned City series (Scholastic). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Dayna is a staff attorney with the Vermont Judiciary and lives with her husband\, two kids\, and two cats in Vermont. If you ask nicely\, she will show you the proper way to eat a cupcake. Visit her at www.daynalorentz.com and NoSafetyinNumbersBooks.com.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/coyotes-cockroaches-justice-building-a-book-for-young-people-brattleboro-litfest/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tomas Q. Morin and Cindy House - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the  new memoir Let Me Count the Ways\, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. \nHe is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology\, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine\, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. \nHe teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCindy House is an essayist\, short story writer\, artist\, and a regular opener for David Sedaris on his tours across the country. Her memoir\, Mother Noise\, tells the story of what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction in essays and graphic shorts. \nShe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MFA from Lesley University in 2017. She lives in New Haven\, Connecticut\, with her son. \n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/tomas-q-morin-and-cindy-house-brattleboro-literary-festival/
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Dawidoff - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of six books\, including his new book\, The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence\, Injustice\, and the American City. His book\, The Fly Swatter\, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, and another\, In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music\, was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature by Condé Nast Traveller. \nHis first book\, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg was a national bestseller and appeared on many 1994 best book lists. His 2013 book Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football\, was a finalist for a PEN America literary award. He is also the editor of the Library of America’s Baseball: A Literary Anthology. \nA graduate of Harvard University\, he has been a Guggenheim\, a Civitella Ranieri\, and a Berlin Prize fellow and is a contributor to the New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, and the American Scholar \n\n\n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/nicholas-dawidoff-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Jordan Salama and Ben Shattuck - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Salama’s work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times\, National Geographic\, and Scientific American. His book\, Every Day the River Changes\, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. \nA 2019 graduate of Princeton University\, he lives in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen Shattuck\, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. He is the director of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency and curator of the Dedee Shattuck Gallery. \nHis writing can be found in the Harvard Review\, The Common\, the Paris Review Daily\, Lit Hub\, and Kinfolk Magazine. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts\, where he owns and runs a general store built in 1793. \nHis most recent book is Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/jordan-salama-and-ben-shattuck-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T134500
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SUMMARY:Albert Samaha and Thirii Myint - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News and author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes\, whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Village Voice\, San Francisco Weekly\, and the Riverfront Times\, among other outlets. \nA Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient\, he is also the author of Never Ran\, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City\, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award and winner of the New York Society Library’s 2019 Hornblower Award. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\nThirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon\, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok\, Thailand and San José\, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril\, the End of Enmity\, the End of Strife\, a Haven\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the category of Adult Fiction. \nHer second book\, Names for Light: A Family History was the winner of the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain\, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony\, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a Ph.D. in english-creative writing from the University of Denver\, where she served as the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly. \nShe is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College\, where she teaches creative writing and literature.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/albert-samaha-and-thirii-myint-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T121500
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Davis and Eleanor Henderson - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels\, including The Silk Road and Duplex. She has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize\, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nHer new book is Aurelia\, Aurelia a memoir. Davis won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006 and is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University. \n\n\nEleanor Henderson grew up in Florida and has taught in the Department of Writing at Ithaca since 2010. Her latest book is the memoir Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage\,  which was selected for the New York Times Group Text Book Club and named a New York Times Notable Book. \nShe is also the author of the novels The Twelve-Mile Straight and Ten Thousand Saints\, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times\, was a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times\, and was adapted into a movie starring Ethan Hawke. With the novelist Anna Solomon she is also co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers. \nShe lives in Ithaca with her husband and two children. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/kathryn-davis-and-eleanor-henderson-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T104500
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SUMMARY:Ellyn Gaydos - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Ellyn Gaydos received an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University. Her work has received the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism\, and appeared in The Texas Review\, Columbia Journal\, and Ninth Letter\, where she received the 2017 award for creative nonfiction. \nShe is the author of a new memoir\, Pig Years and lives in New Lebanon\, New York.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/ellyn-gaydos-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Teens
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T164500
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SUMMARY:David Sipress and Tad Friend - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:David Sipress was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Williams College in 1968 and went on to study Russian History in the Department of Soviet Studies at Harvard University. He left Harvard before completing his degree to pursue a career as a cartoonist and has been staff cartoonist since 1998 for The New Yorker\, where he has published nearly 700 cartoons. \nHe lectures widely on cartooning\, and his autobiographical writing has appeared frequently on newyorker.com.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, Ginny Shubert\, an attorney and activist who works on issues of health and housing. \nLibrary Journal calls his latest book\, What’s So Funny: A Cartoonist’s Memoir. “An intimate and engaging memoir by an artist who understands that personal thoughts and feelings often lead to remarkable ideas.” The New York Times called it\, “An endearingly vulnerable tale of being molded by one’s family of origin…economic and amiable (and occasionally devastating). \n\n\nTad Friend is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. His memoir\, Cheerful Money: Me\, My Family\, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor\, was chosen as one of the year’s best books by The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. His new memoir\, In The Early Times\, was published in May. \nHe lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, Amanda Hesser and their twins\, Walker and Addison. \n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/david-sipress-and-tad-friend/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Teens
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SUMMARY:Sofi Thanhauser - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Sofi Thanhauser teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, MacDowell\, and Ucross Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Vox\, The Guardian\, Observer Magazine\, and Dame among other publications. \nHer new book is Worn: A People’s History of Clothing. She lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/sofi-thanhauser-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Teens
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T123000
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SUMMARY:Maria Scrivan - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author\, award-winning syndicated cartoonist\, and speaker based in Greenwich\, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud comic\, Half Full\, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. \nMaria licenses her work for greeting cards\, and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine\, Parade\, and many other publications. Nat Enough\, her debut graphic novel\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and the follow-ups\, Forget Me Nat and Absolutely Nat\, also released to great acclaim. \n\n\n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/maria-scrivan-brattleboro-literary-festival-2/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Children & Families
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T110000
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SUMMARY:Melany Kahn - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mason Goes Mushrooming\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis first-of-its kind foraging story from Melany Kahn and Ellen Korbonski\,   Mason Goes Mushrooming takes us on a woodland treasure hunt. \nJoin Melany Kahn for an interactive kid -friendly activities about mushrooms. Examine and identify real local mushrooms. Grab provided materials to make your own wooden\, paper or model mushrooms to take home. And the author will be available to lead a mushroom walk in the woods following the event\, if you are interested. \nA brilliant introduction to mushrooms for children! \n\n\n\nMelany Kahn started hunting for mushrooms in Vermont in 1968 when her family bought a farm in West Brattleboro. She attended Wesleyan University\, (BA\, English/Creative Writing). She holds a Masters in Social Work from Boston College and MFA in Film from The Tisch School at NYU where she met her illustration collaborator\, Ellen Korbonski. \nMelany lives in New Hampshire with her husband and children\, and you can find her leading mushroom walks or foraging at every opportunity. Mason Goes Mushrooming is her first book. \n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/melany-kahn-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Children & Families,General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T203000
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SUMMARY:William Mundell: Life and Poetry - Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:William Mundell (1912-1997)  is one of Vermont’s finest native-born poets.  He lived his entire life in South Newfane\, unusually combining his career as a poet with work as a carpenter\, stone mason\, and State highway foreman.  He served on the town selectboard\, as an auditor\, and justice of the peace\, and was also editor of Poet Lore magazine.  In 1989\, he was named Vermont Poet Laureate\, by the Poetry Society of Vermont; the previous recipient of the award had been Robert Frost. \n\n\n\n\nThis event features a roundtable discussion on Mundell’s life and career\, with reminiscences by nephews Merrill Mundell\, jr and Malcolm Mundell\, and great-nephew Eric Mundell. \nAlso joining the panel will be Andy Burrows of Guilford\, who guided the publication of Mundell’s first volume of poetry by the Stephen Greene Press.  There were three volumes all together. \nAn exhibit will highlight the poet’s other achievements as a photographer — his work was featured in Life magazine. \n  \nThe evening will conclude with a reading/lecture by Don McLean of Guilford\, a Vermont based independent scholar and composer. As part of the Brattleboro Words Project McLean contributed to the research of three 19th century Guilford/Brattleboro literary personalities\, which included Lucy Terry Prince\, 18th century African American poet of Guilford; Royall and Mary Tyler\, who lived in both Guilford and Brattleboro in the early 19th century; and the  fiction author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\, who lived in Brattleboro later in that century. \nHis lecture on the 20th century Vermont poet\, William Mundell\, scheduled for 2020\, was interrupted during the Covid crisis. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/william-mundell-life-and-poetry-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T183000
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SUMMARY:Literary Cocktail Hour: Ruth Ozeki
DESCRIPTION:The Literary Cocktail Hour is an fun\, informal monthly event featuring a pair (or more) of speakers in an entertaining\, illuminating virtual event that opens with cocktails! \nLiterary Cocktail Hour—The Book of Form And Emptiness \nOn Friday\, December 10\, The Brattleboro Literary Festival concludes its 20th anniversary year with a very special Literary Cocktail Hour at 5:00 pm featuring Ruth Ozeki. Her new book\, The Book of Form and Emptiness\, tells the story of thirteen-year-old Benny Oh who\, one year after the death of his beloved musician father\, begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker\, a broken Christmas ornament\, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying\, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant\, a gentle hum or coo\, but others are snide\, angry and full of pain. When his mother\, Annabelle\, develops a hoarding problem\, the voices grow more clamorous. \nhttp://bit.ly/LitCocktail14 \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest\, whose books have garnered international acclaim for their ability to integrate issues of science\, technology\, religion\, environmental politics\, and global pop culture into unique\, hybrid\, narrative forms. Her new novel\, The Book of Form and Emptiness\, published by Viking in September 2021\, tells the story of a young boy who\, after the death of his father\, starts to hear voices and finds solace in the companionship of his very own book.Her first two novels\, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003)\, have been translated into 11 languages and published in 14 countries. Her third novel\, A Tale for the Time Being (2013)\, won the LA Times Book Prize\, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and has been published in over thirty countries. She splits her time between Western Massachusetts\, New York City\, and British Columbia\, Canada. She currently teaches creative writing at Smith College\, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/literary-cocktail-hour-ruth-ozeki/
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