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Brattleboro Literary Festival
United States
Приєднався 20 кві 2020
The Brattleboro Literary Festival is one of the longest, continuously operating literary festivals in New England. Since October 2002, the Festival has brought thousands of book and literature lovers from all over New England and New York.
Please check our website at brattleboroliteraryfestival.org for dates to the upcoming annual Festival held in October, or through our social media channels: Facebook, @brattleborolitfest; Instagram, @brattleborolitfest; and Twitter, @Vtbookfest.
Our Literary Cocktail Hours, initiated during the pandemic year in 2020 using Zoom, feature fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, on the second Friday of the month, at 5 pm. These events are free and open to the public. Check our website for the schedule.
Thanks to our partner, Brattleboro Community Television, we are able to provide videos of our authors' readings available on this channel.
Please check our website at brattleboroliteraryfestival.org for dates to the upcoming annual Festival held in October, or through our social media channels: Facebook, @brattleborolitfest; Instagram, @brattleborolitfest; and Twitter, @Vtbookfest.
Our Literary Cocktail Hours, initiated during the pandemic year in 2020 using Zoom, feature fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, on the second Friday of the month, at 5 pm. These events are free and open to the public. Check our website for the schedule.
Thanks to our partner, Brattleboro Community Television, we are able to provide videos of our authors' readings available on this channel.
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Coming of Age - Moon Unit Zappa
What would life be like as the child of rock iconoclast and composer
Frank Zappa? Endless meals of burnt weeny sandwiches washed down
by white port lemon juice? Nothing so amusingly absurd, unless you
consider the very name you were given. Frank’s frequent absences and
endless cavorting with his groupies led to a stormy marriage with his
wife Gail Zappa, and a distant relationship with his daughter, in spite of
Zappa’s biggest popular hit, featuring Moon Unit Zappa as the chattering
“Valley Girl.” Moon Unit spent a long time trying to figure out if her
mother was more abusive or abused. At the end of Frank Zappa’s life
there was a meager, if nonetheless healing reconciliation. “Life as a Zappa
entails both heartbreak and triumph,” said Kirkus Reviews of Moon Unit’s
rollicking memoir.
Sponsored by the Works
Moon Unit Zappa is the daughter of legendary musician Frank Vincent
Zappa and his second wife, Gail Zappa. At the age of fourteen, Moon
Zappa appeared in Frank Zappa’s career defining music video, “Valley
Girl,” which later helped jump-start Moon’s own career. Since then, Moon
has worked as an actress, singer, writer, comedian, businesswoman,
podcaster and as a VJ for both MTV and VH1.
Recorded October 20, 2024 at The Stone Church.
Frank Zappa? Endless meals of burnt weeny sandwiches washed down
by white port lemon juice? Nothing so amusingly absurd, unless you
consider the very name you were given. Frank’s frequent absences and
endless cavorting with his groupies led to a stormy marriage with his
wife Gail Zappa, and a distant relationship with his daughter, in spite of
Zappa’s biggest popular hit, featuring Moon Unit Zappa as the chattering
“Valley Girl.” Moon Unit spent a long time trying to figure out if her
mother was more abusive or abused. At the end of Frank Zappa’s life
there was a meager, if nonetheless healing reconciliation. “Life as a Zappa
entails both heartbreak and triumph,” said Kirkus Reviews of Moon Unit’s
rollicking memoir.
Sponsored by the Works
Moon Unit Zappa is the daughter of legendary musician Frank Vincent
Zappa and his second wife, Gail Zappa. At the age of fourteen, Moon
Zappa appeared in Frank Zappa’s career defining music video, “Valley
Girl,” which later helped jump-start Moon’s own career. Since then, Moon
has worked as an actress, singer, writer, comedian, businesswoman,
podcaster and as a VJ for both MTV and VH1.
Recorded October 20, 2024 at The Stone Church.
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: How to Be Old - Lyn Slater with Wendy O’Connell
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When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty- one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have t...
A Literary Cocktail Hour: "Every Valley"--Handel's Messiah with Charles King
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Charles King, author of "Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah." George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras, as well as by audiences singing along with the words on their cell phones. But this work of triumphant joy was...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Small Town Mysteries - Juliet Grames & Sarah Stewart Taylor
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It’s 1960 in Calabria when twenty-seven-year-old Francesca, a starry- eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia, tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after ...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Cuban Influences - Pablo Medina
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Award-winning poet, novelist and translator Pablo Medina’s new collection Sea of Broken Mirrors is a book of questions and incantations. Full of lush sonics and surreal yet contemporary imagery, the book offers Medina’s take on biblical canticles. His work is grounded in descriptions of Vermont’s nature still beautiful despite the ravages of global warming as well as memories of his youth and f...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Head Over Heels - Melissa Newman
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“It wasn’t always a fairy tale, but I wanted to remember the best,dreamiest, most sublime part, and that part just happens to be true,”Melissa Newman writes in her tribute to her celebrated parents, PaulNewman and Joanne Woodward. If ever there was an iconic moviecouple, Newman and Woodward were it. Subtitled A Love Affair in Wordsand Pictures, the coffee table book is stuffed with photos of th...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Strangers in a Strange Land - Samuel Kọ́láwọlé & Zain Khalid
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In Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s masterful first book, The Road to Salt Sea, A youngman’s life is turned upside down when he is forced to flee Nigeria andembark on a perilous journey to Europe to seek safety and a betterlife. With nothing but hope and determination, he faces down humantraffickers, treacherous landscapes, and the unforgiving sea. Navigatingthe dark underbelly of illegal migration, his stor...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Poets Who Teach - Major Jackson & Jessica Fisher
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Jessica Fisher brings “the faraway close,” through ruthless yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence in her new collection, Daywork. Set against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome, Daywork takes its title from the giornata-the name in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day, where each “day” is marked by the hidden seams in a fini...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Love and Solitude - Sigrid Nunez & Roxana Robinson
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Sigrid Nunez’s nationally bestselling The Vulnerables was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, Kirkus, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, the San Francisco Chronicle and others. With the help of an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka, a solitary female narrator considers what it means to be alive at this moment in history, what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to ...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Too Much and Not Enough - Emmeline Clein & Anna Shechtman
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In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture celebrities, and the girls she’s known and loved. Through the story of her own sickness, the raw recollections of interview subjects, and dispatches from social media rabbit holes, Clein challenges stereotypes and renders statistics and science deeply...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Family History, and Myth - Amitava Kumar & Tyriek Rashawn White
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Amitava Kumar’s My Beloved Life is an absorbing, moving novel tracing the life of Jadunath Kunwar, born in 1935 in an Indian village near George Orwell’s birthplace. Jadu’s life skates between the mythical and the mundane as changes big and small sweep across India, and he finds meaning in the most unexpected places: about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoi...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: The Pursuit of Happiness - Jeffrey Rosen
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It’s in the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence that we learn about our self-evident and unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But what did the founding fathers really mean by the latter phrase? It was decidedly not a heedless chase after pleasure, but almost the reverse-a striving for virtue. How did they come up with this notion? By plowing through r...
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Historical Tales of Quest and Adventure - M.T. Anderson & Tania James
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If you’re feeling beaten down by the drudgery and heartbreak of contemporary life, perhaps it’s time to escape into a good novel. In particular, a beautifully written, immersive novel that transports you to the past, to a distant land, or an adventurous quest in search of something important, or meaning itself. In M.T. Anderson’s adult debut novel Nicked, a young Benedictine monk in 11th centur...
Orwell's Ghost: A discussion with Laura Beers, Historian, American University
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On Friday, November 8, the Brattleboro Literary Festival presented a Literary Cocktail Hou, with Laura Beers, author of "Orwell’s Ghosts:Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century." For the 75th anniversary of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today in her new book, Orwell’s Ghosts. First published in 1949, Nineteen Ei...
A Literary Cocktail Hour with former Vermont State Poet Sydney Lea
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On Friday, September 13 at 5:00 pm, the Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted the former Vermont State Poet Sydney Lea, author of his new book "Now Look," is a moving novel about second chances, missed chances, and redemption. SYDNEY LEA was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2011-2015. In 2021, He received Vermont’s highest artistic distinction, The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 20...
Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast With Thomas E. Ricks
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Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast With Thomas E. Ricks
Write Action's Poems Around Town 2024
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Write Action's Poems Around Town 2024
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution with Cat Bohannon
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution with Cat Bohannon
Life of Willa Cather with author Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson, National Willa Cather Center
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Life of Willa Cather with author Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson, National Willa Cather Center
Writing Historical Fiction with authors Virginia Pye and Whitney Scharer
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Writing Historical Fiction with authors Virginia Pye and Whitney Scharer
A Literary Cocktail Hour-Endangered Eating with Sarah Lohman
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A Literary Cocktail Hour-Endangered Eating with Sarah Lohman
The Last Island by Adam Goodheart with photojournalist, Tom Clynes
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The Last Island by Adam Goodheart with photojournalist, Tom Clynes
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Madeline Kunin & Richard Michelson
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Madeline Kunin & Richard Michelson
Joyce Maynard Endorses our Brattleboro Literary Festival
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Joyce Maynard Endorses our Brattleboro Literary Festival
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Alternate Worlds- Kelly Link & Holly Black
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Alternate Worlds- Kelly Link & Holly Black
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Difficult Discussions- Catherine Newman & Laura Zigman
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Difficult Discussions- Catherine Newman & Laura Zigman
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Diana Whitney & Cate Marvin
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Diana Whitney & Cate Marvin
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Circumstances of Life- Andre Dubus & Mary Beth Keane
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Circumstances of Life- Andre Dubus & Mary Beth Keane
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Coffee, Tea, or...Cocktails?- Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman
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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Coffee, Tea, or...Cocktails?- Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman
Interesting discussion especially on class inequality and the difficulty to understand the other classes. I have seen programs to help people living on the street stopped from being implemented because people say "I wouldn't live like that so why should we allow them to do so. We should ensure everyone has the same facilities." So nothing gets done and people who prefer to live on the streets continue to do so without any help.
I've hitchhiked 12000 miles +/- around the US and come across some characters that's for sure. Being homeless will cut a lot of cobwebs from your eyes. I didn't run into Dick but the article about him in the New Yorker has been a favorite, i've got it rolled up here someplace. I bought the book The Riverman, and it's a fair assessment of what might have happened with him. And of who he might have been in his own mind. I think anyone like me, like Dick, who just drops out and goes ''walkabout'' is seeking life. I just won't be shackled to a job anymore. They say people quit bosses, not jobs, and I think they're right. I liked the narrative, I liked the descriptions of his adventures and so on.
Everyone knows Your Butt. 😂
This just started playing on my feed, I felt compelled to say hello, I have family in Maine and is where my heart is. I will pick up a book of his, I love a good murder mystery!
Great story
Thank you for posting this!
Thank you for posting this! I will share it with my classes this week.
So, what about the book review?
takes 2 to tango. women can't reproduce all by themselves.
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!
Only 200 million? Why so little? I thought humans have at least 1 billion years of evolution as a species. Maybe even more…
Ya'll women stopped reproducing so it's all for nothing
How did this crap get to me..
the scroll button is your friend, your opinion is so pathetic.
Loved the family therapy and the different roles of siblings discussion. Very profound, thank you for being open.
Love this author
Do you have the link to the Spotify playlist that Ruth mentioned?
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.
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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. )
Joyce Maynard thank you for you!!!!!!! 🎉❤
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!
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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
'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.
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 🌿
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 = 🎯
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very good , interesting Longitude 127 Seoul Okinawa Soul Axis -- Bahai Faith Rael Jesus Huh kyung young Great aletheia .
Awesome words…!! Gr8 information Leslie…👏🏼💞
Great speakers and writers
great stories Ed Burke, totally enjoyed your reading :) hope the library has your books.
Scott Spencer is a wonderful novelist! One of my favoite writers!
Paul Krugman supports Joe Biden, a neocon warmonger.
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.
@@jimmuncy5636 -I'm a musician. Take care.
Wrong! He is against Trump. There's a big difference between the two...
@@azapura -Sorry, he endorsed Biden, so he's a neocon warmonger.