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Thank you again for joining us this year for our 24th annual #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! We'd love to hear from you and see what you loved and how we might make improvements for future events. Please take a minute and fill out this quick survey for us: bit.ly/LitFestSurve... #Vermont #BookFestival

Happy Halloween says Linus

#RobFranklin will be joining us this year! Learn more about his debut novel, Great Black Hope, from his interview on @thedailyshow.com with @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social. #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival #DebutNovel #Fiction #Brattleboro #Vermont #LiteraryFestival youtu.be/-3DhBa_65I4?...

They are going after big donor Dems like George Soros

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Vermont historian J. Kevin Graffagnino, former director @vermonthistory.org will give a special presentation as part of local America 250 events in commemoration of America's Semiquincentennial next year. 7pm Brooks Memorial Library. @vtbookfest.bsky.social

Let’s go Festival lovers!!

@vtbookfest.bsky.social encourages book buyers when they shop online to use your website. The 24th Literary Festival takes off Oct17-19

#litfic #comedy & #depression

Today at #AugustusSaintGaudens #nationalhistoric site #CornishNH with #losvillalobos a #nodoge zone

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We'll be welcoming #LaurieGwenShapiro to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! Her latest book, The Aviator and the Showman, was published in July. Photo of Laurie Gwen Shapiro by Franco Vogt. All events are FREE and open to the public. Pls visit the link in bio for more info. #nonfiction #Vermont

We hope to see you there!

We're excited to welcome poet #ColinChanner to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival2025. His latest collection, Console, was published in 2023. Martin Espada writes, "⁣Channer’s new poems leap from the page. Their musicality is powerfully insistent, pulsing through every poem." #poetry #Vermont #Poets

We're thrilled to announce that @tiyamiles.bsky.social will be joining us for the 2025 Brattleboro Literary Festival. Her most recent book, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman & the Faith Dreams of a Free People, was published in 2024. #TiyaMiles #nonfiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival #Vermont

Please join us on Friday, October 17th in welcoming @timweedwriter.bsky.social at 118 Elliott. He'll be discussing his new #SciFiNovel, the Afterlife Project. Pls see the full schedule listed in the link in our bio. #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival #Author #TimWeed #Fiction #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction

An impressive lineup of #poets & #poetry on Saturday 10/18. See schedule brattleborolitfest.org/wp-content/u...

The lies from the Bondi-Patel hydra will surprise even Zeus.

We are pleased to welcome poet, Dzvinia Orlowsky, to the 2025 #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Orlowsky's latest collection of poetry, Those Absences Now Closest, was published in 2024. All events are FREE & open to the public. #DzviniaOrlowsky #poetry #Brattleboro #Vermont #books

Best book I’ve read in 2025

We're delighted to welcome #nonfiction writer, @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social, this fall. His latest book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award & the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize. #Challenger #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival

So delighted to welcome #AlbertAbonado to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival this year! His latest poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents, was published in 2024. It was selected by Mahogany L. Browne for the National Poetry Series. All events are FREE and open to the public. #poetry #Vermont

@brattlebororetreat.bsky.social presents An Evening with @garygulman.bsky.social to benefit the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival at the Latchis Theater on Sept. 10, @ 7pm. Join us for a screening of #TheGreatDepresh at #Brattleboro's #LatchisTheatre. Please find the link in our bio to purchase tickets.

Join us in October to welcome @adacalhoun.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, Crush, was published in February. Isaac Fitzgerald writes, "⁣Crush marks Calhoun’s arrival as a novelist, and what an incredibly explosive arrival it is.” #AdaCalhoun #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival

Maltempo: tempesta di fulmini in Toscana, si allaga Venezia, a Roma decine di alberi caduti https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/21/news/maltempo_italia_nubifragi_toscana_roma_venezia_romagna_previsioni-424799811/?rss

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.

Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.

My friend Alfonso in Sorrento send me this photo today

Dramatic end to the day. Fire on the slopes of Vesuvius lit by the setting sun. #Pompeii

AMERICA! The new and final episode of ‘Pompeii The New Dig’ airs tonight on PBS! It follows the progress of the excavation team and all the spectacular and poignant discoveries made in the last year. It’s a beautiful love letter to Pompeii. www.pbs.org/video/traile...

Have you seen who is coming to the 2025 @vtbookfest.bsky.social ? Authors here brattleborolitfest.org/authors/ including @benshattuck to whom @nytimes.com Maureen Dowd gave a shoutout on Aug 2-- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@macdowell1907.bsky.social #MedalDay 65th to honor #AlfredoJaar & a beautiful sunny day

A Noem Poem Regarding the despicable, jack booted response by Kristi Noem to Senator Padilla yesterday, with help from chatGPT open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

This was predictable Kennedy Center sees ticket sales fall dramatically amid Trump intervention Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A #genealogical #singularity www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

It was on my list last year and failed to make it there. Next time!! one of Rome’s best restaurants is rewriting a major food rule open.substack.com/pub/sluttisp...

IT’S THE CORRUPTION STUPID…. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

#LibraryofCongress The vandals are taking down our beloved people and institutions one by one…https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#genealogy Now this is another historic first. New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans, Genealogist Says (@honora www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Per historian Jari Honora The new pope has Creole of color roots from New Orleans on his mother's side. His family left New Orleans and went to Chicago between 1910 and 1912. Apparently his grandfather was born in Haiti. So, a lot of history being made.

History of the first Mexican cartel? Yes, it was #Tequila. Register for this Zoom event, Friday, May 9, 5 pm ET, The Tequila Wars, new book by Ted Genoways, us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If you are going to Rome soon, or just got back after this historic moment, subscribe to MarioM substack @unveilingrome open.substack.com/pub/visitrom...

#genealogy #geneticgenealogy "We are so much more than just our genes, and identity cannot be reduced to a singularity, “What made someone Carthaginian would have been many things, including a link to Carthage itself, its myths, stories, cultures and families.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...