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Key Enthusiasts Gather at a Burlington Type-In
by Margot Harrison Last Saturday afternoon, Burlington's Maglianero Café filled with a sound eerily familiar to people of a certain age: the tapping of manual typewriters. The typists, ranging from...
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Dartmouth College Contests Ask: Can Software Make Art?
by Ken Picard Dartmouth College has issued a call to artists, but it's as likely to appeal to mathematicians, software developers and artificial-intelligence researchers as it is to poets and...
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Under Sharp White Stars: Fiction
They were standing in the driveway beneath the dry black sky and the sharp white stars. The snow was deep and clean and everywhere. It had been cold for a week. Ten below, 15 below, 20 below during...
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Saturday Morning Babka: A Short Story
How about you give me some of that whatchamacallit of yours, Ron says to Doris, pouring himself coffee from the scorched aluminum pot. He sets it back on the tile, and the baby mouths hot and hot...
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Second 'Zig Zag Lit Mag' Features Voices of Addison County
Last fall, a pair of Vergennes writers launched Zig Zag Lit Mag, a semiannual publication dedicated to lifting up the voices of Addison County writers. On March 28, they released their second issue...
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A Vermont Librarian Who 'Moonlights' as Arabic Translator
Christian Collins appears to be living a double life. By day, he's a mild-mannered American-born librarian at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. Off the clock, he's a Canadian resident who uses his fluency...
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Writers for Recovery Publishes Second Anthology
Amid the nationwide opiate crisis, said filmmaker and Kingdom County Productions cofounder Bess O'Brien, Writers for Recovery is a "bright spot." For the past three years, O'Brien and Montpelier...
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These Two Ladies Created a Site for All Things Literary
Care to hear a Pulitzer Prize winner read from his latest book or a MacArthur "genius" fellow recite her poems? Anyone with a hankering to listen to literary luminaries has numerous local...
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Reuben Jackson's Mysterious Friend Is a Facebook Hit
Reuben Jackson is best known to Vermonters as the velour-voiced host of "Friday Night Jazz" on Vermont Public Radio. The 60-year-old native of Washington, D.C., is a jazz scholar and aficionado; he...
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Master Storyteller Recille Hamrell Has Inspired Generations
The Shelburne Vineyard routinely attracts visitors who come to sip wine straight from the source. On those occasions, oenophiles gather around the large wooden bar in the center of the tasting room....
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Hyperesthesia: A Short Story
Yuppies and neckers. Flatlanders and woodchucks. Like a number of my pals growing up, Sandy's pedigree was mixed. His mom was born in Who-the-Hell-Cares-Where, Ohio, and came to Burlington to do...
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Former Sudanese Journalist Discusses Free Press and Censorship
Sudanese journalist and novelist Ahmed M. Ahmed, 46, got his first taste of social activism when he was about 15. Incensed that his school wasn't distributing enough bread, Ahmed and his classmates...
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Geoff Gevalt Hands Young Writers Project Reins to Susan Reid
When Geoffrey Gevalt created the Young Writers Project in 2003 as a monthly feature in the Burlington Free Press, he had two goals: to teach kids to write and to showcase their work. "A lot of...
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Mad Hopping? A Fill-in-the-Blank Guide to the South End Art Hop
Write your own Art Hop adventure.
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Fletcher Free Library Launches Series With Arabic Literature
When Barbara Shatara, a librarian at the Fletcher Free Library, asked her family and friends to name Canadian writers, she learned that few of them could come up with names besides The Handmaid's Tale...
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'The Bicycle,' Fiction by Stephen Kiernan
If you are very lucky, there will be one day in your life on which your brother becomes your hero. I was hoofing home from choir practice, the December I was 10, toting a shoulder bag of science...
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