Green Writers Press Releases First Book, Seeks Contributors
Care to guess the most famous book ever set in Vermont? Prepare to be surprised — it’s not a book by Archer Mayor, Howard Frank Mosher or Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, to name a few possible candidates....
View ArticleAndrew 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 ArticleA New Documentary Celebrates Vermont's Small — and Bygone — Ski Areas
Growing up in Vermont, brothers Elliot and Tyler Wilkinson-Ray spent countless happy hours skiing. The slopes their family favored were not at the state’s major resorts, however, but at the...
View ArticleShort Takes on Film: The Hunt; A Defiant Dude Update
It’s autumn, and the men of a small Danish burg are gearing up for their beloved deer season. Soon one of them will find himself not hunting, but hunted — by his own friends and neighbors. That’s the...
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 ArticleDocumented on Film, Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Players Shine
Jericho native Sarah Hotchkiss trained as a violist from the age of 11, played in the Vermont Youth Orchestra and attended the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, N.Y., for her first two years of...
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 ArticleAnti-Christmas Movie: White Reindeer
Some people seek out Christmas movies around the holidays. And others seek out anti-Christmas movies. Those in the latter category may want to drop in on White Reindeer, the latest drama from Brooklyn...
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 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 ArticleIllegal, Iranian-Directed Film This Is Not a Film Makes Its Way to Middlebury
The brief closing credits of Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s 2011 semi-documentary This Is Not a Film may well be the key to understanding this cryptic, fascinating work. Those credits inform...
View ArticleShort Takes on Film: MountainTop Film Fest; Inequality for All; Noam Chomsky...
Like your movies with sides of earnestness and activism? It’s time once again for the annual MountainTop Film Festival, which showcases narrative and documentary films devoted to human rights issues....
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 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 ArticleUVM Screens Labor-Themed Film Series
Do you know the last line of Martin Ritt’s 1976 comedic drama The Front? According to David Jenemann, director of film and television studies at the University of Vermont, it’s one of the greatest...
View ArticleShort Takes on Film: Activist Documentaries
“Climate change is no longer just a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. It is a crime against humanity,” says one of the talking heads featured in a new documentary called The Wisdom to Survive:...
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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