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Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast With Thomas E. Ricks
On Friday, June 21 at 5:30 pm, the Brattleboro Literary Festival presented New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, author of new book "Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast."
In this riveting crime debut, Ricks turns his literary talents to land he knows deeply, from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round. An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different-sometimes lethally so. After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball-the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation.
Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What’s more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up pretty badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine. Publisher’s Weekly said "A crackling procedural about a grieving FBI agent who sets out to solve a murder in Maine. The sturdy whodunit plot is enriched by the author’s firm grasp of his setting and a colorful cast of New Englanders who never veer into caricature. A sequel would be welcome."
Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. As a reporter at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, he was a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He worked in the Maine woods in his youth and trapped lobsters when living on an island in Penobscot Bay. He now divides his time between Texas and Maine.
Ricks is in conversation with Festival Authors' Committee member and award winning investigative journalist, Leah McGrath Goodman.
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Write Action's Poems Around Town 2024
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April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of the art and craft of poetry, a group of organizations, led by Write Action, and with the participation of numerous downtown businesses, has filled downtown with poems submitted by poets living in the area, throughout the state, or in the tri-state area of southern Vermont. PAT is co-sponsored by Brooks Memorial Library and the Brattleboro Litera...
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
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On May 17 the Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted Edward O’Keefe, author of "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President," and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, who was in conversation with Michael Cullinane, the Lowman Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University, and Public Historian for the Theodore Roosevelt As...
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution with Cat Bohannon
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How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit men...
Life of Willa Cather with author Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson, National Willa Cather Center
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The Brattleboro Literary Festival continued its 2024 season on the evening of Friday, February 9, 2024, with award-winning author Benjamin Taylor and National Willa Cather Center Executive Director, Ashley Olson. They were in conversation about Taylor's newest book, "Chasing Bright Medusas: The Life of Willa Cather." Benjamin Taylor’s "Chasing Bright Medusas" combines intricate analysis with an...
Writing Historical Fiction with authors Virginia Pye and Whitney Scharer
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Virginia Pye’s T"he Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann" is set in Gilded Age Boston. It tells the story of a successful woman author of romance and adventure novels who becomes a champion of women’s rights as she takes on the literary establishment and finds her true voice. Everything changes for Victoria when she goes against her publisher’s expectations and abandons her frivolous style to tel...
A Literary Cocktail Hour-Endangered Eating with Sarah Lohman
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American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them? Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley-but the family farms that caretake them are shutting ...
The Last Island by Adam Goodheart with photojournalist, Tom Clynes
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A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In Nov...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Madeline Kunin & Richard Michelson
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In Madeleine May Kunin’s second poetry collection, Walk With Me, the well-versed poet and three-term Vermont governor invites the audience to step into her world, to slow down and #nd new serenity in older age and unexpected love. Kunin explores the nuances of everyday moments that cultivate a bittersweet appreciation for simple joys. Walk With Me is a beautifully crafted illustration of not on...
Joyce Maynard Endorses our Brattleboro Literary Festival
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The 22nd Annual Brattleboro Literary Festival took place October 13-15 with over 60 authors and 40 programs. Please visit linktr.ee/thebrattleboroliteraryfestival. Check out recorded programs at ua-cam.com/play/PLhm7y7kxn_AHvn6MScmQmrKt_QURXOuqi.html&si=kb2T7ikdBPRZCUp7. See you next year October 18-20, 2024 in Downtown Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Alternate Worlds- Kelly Link & Holly Black
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Real life friends, Kelly Link and Holly Black set their books in alternate worlds filled with magic, fantasy, and fairies. Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose in he...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Difficult Discussions- Catherine Newman & Laura Zigman
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Catherine Newman’s We All Want Impossible Things is the story of Edith and Ashley. They have been best friends for over forty-two years, shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan’s Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. But now Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and sp...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Diana Whitney & Cate Marvin
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Diana Whitney’s seductive second collection, Dark Beds, juxtaposes the conflicted emotions of motherhood and domesticity with the intoxicating promises of transgression. Fantasies fulfilled or imagined play out against the haunted backdrop of Vermont’s woods and fields, a landscape both harsh and magical, conjuring longing and grief, dissolution and repair. Here we see how time is reflected in ...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Circumstances of Life- Andre Dubus & Mary Beth Keane
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In Andre Dubus III’s new book, Such Kindness, Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay o! the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifce for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shi...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Coffee, Tea, or...Cocktails?- Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman
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Real life couple Ann Hood and Michael Ruhlman love books, food, travel and of course cocktails. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, fight attendants were the epitome of glamour and sophistication. Fly Girl describes how, fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world (and maybe, one day, write about it), Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Ho...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Missing- Angie Kim & Jean Kwok
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Missing- Angie Kim & Jean Kwok
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Two Sides of Friendship- Jonathan Rosen & Will Schwalbe
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Two Sides of Friendship- Jonathan Rosen & Will Schwalbe
Brattleboro Literary Festival: The Beauty of Art- Jill Bialosky & Patrick Bringley
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: The Beauty of Art- Jill Bialosky & Patrick Bringley
Brattleboro Literary Festival: On Patriarchy - Angela Saini & Carrie Baker
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: On Patriarchy - Angela Saini & Carrie Baker
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Rough Sleepers- Tracy Kidder & Robbie Gamble
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Rough Sleepers- Tracy Kidder & Robbie Gamble
Joyce Maynard Discusses her novel, "The Bird Hotel," for Brattleboro Literary Festival Cocktail Hour
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Joyce Maynard Discusses her novel, "The Bird Hotel," for Brattleboro Literary Festival Cocktail Hour
Robert Pinsky Discusses "Jersey Breaks" for Brattleboro Literary Festival June Cocktail Hour.
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Robert Pinsky Discusses "Jersey Breaks" for Brattleboro Literary Festival June Cocktail Hour.
Write Action's Poems Around Town: A Relaxed Evening of Poetry
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Write Action's Poems Around Town: A Relaxed Evening of Poetry
David Maraniss on Jim Thorpe, "A Path Lit by Lightning"
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David Maraniss on Jim Thorpe, "A Path Lit by Lightning"
The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
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The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
"A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature" with Fred Pearce and Lisa Merton
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"A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature" with Fred Pearce and Lisa Merton
The Story of a Jewish Boy, A World War II Diary, by Leo Berman, with Simi Berman & Vincent Panella
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The Story of a Jewish Boy, A World War II Diary, by Leo Berman, with Simi Berman & Vincent Panella
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Tillie Walden
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Tillie Walden
A Literary Cocktail Hour-"The Rabbit Hutch" 2202 National Book Award for Fiction author Tess Gunty
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A Literary Cocktail Hour-"The Rabbit Hutch" 2202 National Book Award for Fiction author Tess Gunty
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Sofi Thanhauser
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Sofi Thanhauser

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  • @lindarogoff6775
    @lindarogoff6775 Місяць тому

    Great story

  • @danielguerra5821
    @danielguerra5821 Місяць тому

    Thank you for posting this!

  • @danielguerra5821
    @danielguerra5821 Місяць тому

    Thank you for posting this! I will share it with my classes this week.

  • @judithcuanalo1694
    @judithcuanalo1694 2 місяці тому

    So, what about the book review?

  • @maidendimeola65
    @maidendimeola65 2 місяці тому

    takes 2 to tango. women can't reproduce all by themselves.

  • @DesertRascal
    @DesertRascal 2 місяці тому

    Women have contributed much more to the goodness of life than their biological role. Perhaps we shouldn't burden them with the attribution of 'human evolution' as that is still up for debate since we are essentially a failed species. Let's stop DEI'ing them into fictional roles of 'strong female leads'...let's stop accepting Zoomer terms like 'tradwife'. Let's recognize the real examples of female heroics and strength. PLEASE!

  • @crabcrab2024
    @crabcrab2024 2 місяці тому

    Only 200 million? Why so little? I thought humans have at least 1 billion years of evolution as a species. Maybe even more…

  • @SV-cg3sk
    @SV-cg3sk 2 місяці тому

    Ya'll women stopped reproducing so it's all for nothing

  • @sbriks
    @sbriks 2 місяці тому

    How did this crap get to me..

  • @FishareFriendsNotFood972
    @FishareFriendsNotFood972 3 місяці тому

    Loved the family therapy and the different roles of siblings discussion. Very profound, thank you for being open.

  • @FishareFriendsNotFood972
    @FishareFriendsNotFood972 3 місяці тому

    Love this author

  • @kathleenbrady9916
    @kathleenbrady9916 5 місяців тому

    Do you have the link to the Spotify playlist that Ruth mentioned?

  • @lateishacarroll8808
    @lateishacarroll8808 6 місяців тому

    Your mocking of Chau at 21:07 is distasteful. Whether or not you agree with his beliefs is one thing, but to say that the Sentinelese killed him because they weren't interested in his beliefs is a wrong assumption. They obviously didn't know what he believed. What they knew is that he seemed to be a threat to them and that is why they killed him. It had nothing to do with his beliefs because they were not aware of his beliefs.

  • @sourovtach_master
    @sourovtach_master 6 місяців тому

  • @birchc.1542
    @birchc.1542 7 місяців тому

    I dictate for a very rough draft. It helps me to get my ideas out of my head. Then i edit snd revise like crazy. I journal and i do morning pages all by pencil because i am so much more creative that way. (Read Kevin Kling from Minnesota who had a motorcycle accident snd lost use of his hand. He wrote a funny book about using dictation. )

  • @user-tu3bv7bx5c
    @user-tu3bv7bx5c 8 місяців тому

    Joyce Maynard thank you for you!!!!!!! 🎉❤

  • @JamesJones-jartistt
    @JamesJones-jartistt Рік тому

    Thanks for this post featuring Carol Diehl talking about her book “Banksy: Completed.” Your video is full of interesting insights and information. Along with the many; I am a fan/follower of Banksy and his continuing extravagant and provocative artistic expressions. Banksy is a true “Outlaw” in the best possible way and a courageous anti-establishment radical. I was able to see his piece “Sphinx” at Art Miami in 2014. The gallerist suggested to me that Banksy is not a single entity but quite possibly multiple people working in coordination all over the world. He is definitely working with a team of fellows. I just ordered Carol’s book from Amazon and am looking forward to it’s arrival. All the Best to you both and continuing success!

  • @melvin2219
    @melvin2219 Рік тому

    🙌 *PromoSM*

  • @susanosman413
    @susanosman413 Рік тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @theodoretanon1044
    @theodoretanon1044 Рік тому

    Well done, please tell me how Can we contact the author .i would like to work on her novel and i just want to exchange with her. Help me please

  • @DLionheart
    @DLionheart Рік тому

    'Just learned of the existence of this nomad Dick Conant, his story and the author who penned his story. Now I def want to get the book.... ~How sad that he disappeared... but at least he seemed to have done so, doing exactly what he loved to do = being free and canoeing. ~~Bravo to Ben for both honoring and immortalizing this very interesting explorer. Thank you both for this video - enjoyed it immensely. ~~~RIP Dick Conant - May you paddle on forever, in paradise.

  • @isabellastasicastriotascan6467
    @isabellastasicastriotascan6467 2 роки тому

    Very interesting dialogue with Ruth Ozeki, expanding about zen, creativity, hearing voices and much more… I can’t wait to find and read her book. Greetings from the South-East of Italy 🌿

  • @newyorkmyndd9801
    @newyorkmyndd9801 2 роки тому

    I am 75% through Red Comet and feel so vindicated that Sylvia is shown as a real person, a driven, accomplished, professional, talented, smart, writer. So easy for many to make her work and story about cultish madness. Thank you for this Bio! ✌️ Edit- Maggies comments on the difference between current rhetoric and reality for women in the US today and for many worldwide = 🎯

  • @bobu1842
    @bobu1842 2 роки тому

    PЯӨMӨƧM ?

  • @1330m
    @1330m 2 роки тому

    very good , interesting Longitude 127 Seoul Okinawa Soul Axis -- Bahai Faith Rael Jesus Huh kyung young Great aletheia .

  • @sugiebear69
    @sugiebear69 2 роки тому

    Awesome words…!! Gr8 information Leslie…👏🏼💞

  • @rflatley8029
    @rflatley8029 2 роки тому

    Great speakers and writers

  • @rflatley8029
    @rflatley8029 2 роки тому

    great stories Ed Burke, totally enjoyed your reading :) hope the library has your books.

  • @jasonfilm1
    @jasonfilm1 2 роки тому

    Scott Spencer is a wonderful novelist! One of my favoite writers!

  • @ricardodsavant2965
    @ricardodsavant2965 3 роки тому

    Paul Krugman supports Joe Biden, a neocon warmonger.

    • @jimmuncy5636
      @jimmuncy5636 3 роки тому

      Worse, he doesn't understand, appreciate, or promulgate Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a new school of macroeconomics that can lead us out of the wilderness, using capitalism and monetary policy. Check out Stephanie Kelton's "The Deficit Myth" or any MMT videos available on UA-cam. Many other good books on MMT can be found, but Dr. Kelton's is good one to start with.

    • @ricardodsavant2965
      @ricardodsavant2965 3 роки тому

      @@jimmuncy5636 -I'm a musician. Take care.

    • @azapura
      @azapura 3 роки тому

      Wrong! He is against Trump. There's a big difference between the two...

    • @ricardodsavant2965
      @ricardodsavant2965 3 роки тому

      @@azapura -Sorry, he endorsed Biden, so he's a neocon warmonger.