The Vermont Book Shop
-
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.”
-
Two Weybridge authors co-write a Prohibition-era thriller
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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
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 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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.