Andrew Liptak Solicits Submissions for Anthology of War-Based Sci Fi
War is serious business — and so is war-themed science fiction. Your mind may be leaping to the movie version of Starship Troopers. But the genre doesn’t have to be, as Andrew Liptak writes, all about...
View ArticleVermont Food Writer Ed Behr Publishes a "Guide to Good Taste"
Gnudi — the plump, flour-bolstered ravioli fillings without pasta coverings — have established a strong presence in U.S. restaurants over the past decade. They may sound like a trendy twist on gnocchi,...
View ArticleVermont Cookbook Authors Deliver Off-Beat Thanksgiving Sides
Every Thanksgiving, my father rises at dawn to smother a giant bird with ungodly amounts of butter and shove it into the oven. He bastes dutifully every half hour until it turns coppery brown, then...
View ArticleBook Review: Headwaters: Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt
At the outset of this review you notice something a little strange the words are plain and familiar yes ordinary but there are no capitals no commas no poetic curbs or grammatical stop signs to impose...
View ArticleLit News: Authors Offer Book Shopping Advice, Renegade Writers Tell Stories
It’s not always easy shopping for books, especially when they’re gifts. But what if you could ask Rusty DeWees to point you toward something funny? What if you could get tips on the best new fiction...
View ArticleQuick Lit: The Scar Letters by Richard Alther
The Scar Letters is a different kind of coming-out story. Its narrator, 40-year-old Rudy Dallmann, has no problem attending kiss-ins with his activist best friend, Tex, or telling strangers he’s gay....
View ArticlePoetry Quick Lit: Jon Turner, Sherry Olson, Mary Jane Dickerson
“A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,” wrote Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Nowadays, we’re more likely to monumentalize the fleeting moments of our lives via Facebook and YouTube. But poets continue to preserve...
View ArticleVermont College of Fine Arts to Welcome Best-Selling Novelist Julianna Baggott
The teenage heroine of Julianna Baggott’s dystopian novel Pure has a doll’s head permanently fused to her hand. It melded with her body during a series of “Detonations” that transformed the earth into...
View ArticleA Quartet of Books Represents the Volumes by Vermonters This Year
Thanks to the popularity of self-publishing and the proliferation of vanity presses, Seven Days receives a flood of books each year. Much to their authors’ chagrin, and our frustration, we simply can’t...
View ArticleJessamyn West Documents Vermont Public Libraries
“I love love love the Roxbury Library!” declares Jessamyn West, who might be the librarian laureate of Vermont, if there were such a thing. The one-story building housing the Roxbury Free Library is...
View ArticleBook Review: Nostalgia: A Novel, Dennis McFarland
Is post-traumatic stress disorder a timeless side effect of war or a 21st-century buzzword? Readers may find themselves asking that question as they delve into Nostalgia, the powerful new novel from...
View ArticleThe Best of 2013
12/23/13: Eva takes a look back at her favorite Stuck in Vermont videos of 2013. Music: Let's Whisper, As Close As We Are, "It Will Be Ok," The Shortest Days, "When the Snow Falls,""Meet Me On the...
View ArticleSugarbush Owner, Former Merrill Lynch Exec Win Smith Writes Book
Not until the darkest hours of the 2008 financial crisis did Merrill Lynch’s thundering herd finally stampede off a cliff. On the calamitous September weekend that saw the collapse of Lehman Brothers,...
View ArticleThe Endangered Alphabets Project Finds Partners Around the World
These are our words, shaped By our hands, our tools, Our history. Lose them And we lose ourselves.This verse adorns the walls of three schoolhouses in the region of southeastern Bangladesh known as the...
View ArticleBurlington Writers Workshop Supplies Words to Hotel Vermont — and Gets a Room...
Sure, it’s nice to find a locally crafted chocolate on your pillow in a boutique hotel. But how about a locally crafted sonnet on your bedside table? That could soon happen at Burlington’s new Hotel...
View ArticleWords Up: NER Vermont Reading Series; Environmental Writers' Conference
It’s time again for the New England Review’s NER Vermont Reading Series at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. This Thursday, listeners will hear from Midd professor Jay Parini, who just released a...
View ArticleBook Review: If Only You People Could Follow Directions by Jessica Hendry Nelson
Back when memoirs dominated the best-seller lists, it was tempting to believe that any writer with a gritty, harrowing past could generate an instant sensation (and sometimes, as in James Frey’s case,...
View ArticleChester's Misty Valley Books Celebrates Two Decades of New Voices
Tucked on Chester’s town green, Misty Valley Books is quintessential Vermont. Cozy as it is, with its Oriental rugs and IndieBound best sellers, it may not be a store you’d expect to get visits from...
View ArticleThe New Yorker's Calvin Trillin Talks About Elvis, What Makes a Person Funny,...
“Tell him I said to call him Bud,” advised Ed Koren. The Brookfield-based New Yorker cartoonist was referring to writer Calvin Trillin, his longtime friend. In advance of Trillin’s talk at the Vermont...
View ArticleLit News: VT Science Fiction Writer's Series; Renegade Reading
Author readings in Vermont tend to spotlight “literary” fiction, the kind of realistic, contemporary work that appears in journals thick with MFAs. But, as fans of science fiction and fantasy will be...
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