Up for Discussion: Youth sports in the community

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 salon-style talk will take place on Tuesday, June 11, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Town Hall Theater. 

Robert Frost at age 150 is still worthy of recollection

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)

Consider a ‘blind date’ with a book

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.

Book review: The Last Wild Horses — by Maja Lunde

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.

Book review: Scoundrel — by Sarah Weinman

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.

Book review: Mouth to Mouth — by Antoine Wilson

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

Book review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — by Kim Fu

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

Book review: Free Love — by Tessa Hadley

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)

Book review: Joan is Okay — by Weike Wang

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

Book review: Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal — by Brett Ann Stanciu

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)

Book review: Anthem — by Noah Hawley

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

Book review: Next Year in Havana — by Chanel Cleeton

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

Book review: Sea State: A Memoir — by Tabitha Lasley

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.

Book review: A History of Wild Places — by Shea Ernshaw

The visceral and immediate start of this book had me in its grasp from the very start.

Book review: The 1619 Project — created by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine

1619, a year that isn’t well known in the annals of American history, is the starting point for this fresh and exacting examination of the history of slavery in this country, first published in The New York Times Magazine and now expanded into a book.

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