Bliss brings humor and insight to the stage

Join New Yorker contributors Harry Bliss and Sue Halpern as they discuss Bliss’s new graphic memoir “You Can Never Die.”

Marshall Highet and Bird Jones will be in Middlebury signing copies of their new book “The Washashore ”at The Vermont Book Shop on July 26, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.

The third installment of Vermont Book Shop and Town Hall Theater’s “Up for Discussion” series will feature Middlebury Athletic Director Erin Quinn, Carol Weston, and author and journalist Alex Wolff for “Youth Sports in the Community and Beyond.” This sal … (read more)

For around five decades, Jay Parini has returned to Frost’s poems as a reader, a fellow writer, an academic and a biographer. He spent more than 20 of those years poring over Frost’s work and interviewing those close to the poet to compile his 1999 biogra … (read more)

If you’d like to fall in love with a new book, Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury is running a benefit event this month called Blind Date with a Book.

The takhi, a Mongolian wild horse, also known as Przewalski’s horse, is the common bond that ties together the human beings who form the emotional core of this novel.

The subtitle to Sarah Weinman’s new true crime book, “How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free” gives you a comprehensive overview of what you can expect as a reader.

Our unnamed narrator is a writer who, finding himself on an extended layover at LAX, recognizes an old college classmate.

Our reviewer calls this a startling and original collection of short stories.

Phyllis Fischer, who possessed an “expectant, animated prettiness,” and the atmosphere, a “pregnant warm light [that] seemed dense and suspenseful as amber,” make their entrances together in the first pages of this tender, easy novel, the setting drenched … (read more)

Is Joan okay? That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind, except for Joan.

Brett Ann Stanciu, the librarian in a small Vermont town, struggled after a community member, known to be a habitual drug-user and a frequent trespasser in the library building after hours, took his own life just after he was witnessed breaking into the l … (read more)

If you’ve seen the Netflix feature film, “Don’t Look Up,” you’ve already experienced this sort of hyper-contemporary, crisis-confronting satire.

Two timelines unfurl in one city, Havana, Cuba, as two young women discover their courage, their conviction, and their loyalty.

Journalist Tabitha Lasley was determined to write about the men who worked the oil rigs in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeen, the northeast region of the United Kingdom.