Vermont author, educator, environmentalist, and Co-founder of 350.org and Th!rd Act Bill McKibben , in a conversation about his 2022 memoir, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A G...
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Vermont Author Nathaniel Ian Miller in a conversation about his novel, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (Little Brown) . This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, N...
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Award-winning Vermont Author Brad Kessler in conversation about his 2021 novel, North (Overlook Press ). One review of Brad Kessler’s work, a blurb by the author Chris Abani , mentions the ...
British Author Caroline Lea , whose new novel is PrizeWomen (Harper Perennial). This week's Write the Book Prompt was suggested by my guest, Caroline Lea. It's an assignment she sometimes giv...
An interview from 2015 (with our old music!) with literary agent Emily Forland, of the Brandt Hochman Agency in New York. This week’s Write The Book Prompt is to write about a season you ...
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Vermont Author Annie Seyler , whose debut novel is The Wisdom of Winter (Atmosphere Press ). This week's Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Annie Seyler. Identify a mo...
Olena Kharchenko and Michael Sampson, co-authors The Story of Ukraine (Brown Books Kids ). We have two Write the Book Prompts this week. Michael Sampson offered one that seemed rather dark, s...
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Award-winning science writer and journalist Jessica Nordell , author of The End of Bias: A Beginning (Metropolitan ). This week's Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, ...
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Fall 2022 Green Mountain Book Festival panel on Mysteries and Thrillers, moderated by Rachel Carter and featuring authors Miciah Bay Gault , Margot Harrison , Sarah Stewart Taylor , an...
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Vermont Author Erika Nichols-Frazer , speaking about her new memoir, Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness (Casper Press ). This week's Write the Book Prompt was generously offered ...
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Vermont Author Andrew Liptak , whose recent book is Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life (Saga Press ). This week’s first Write the Book ...
Fall 2022 Green Mountain Book Festival panel on Nonfiction, moderated by Shelagh and featuring authors Brian Michael Murphy , Sandra Matthews , Jessica Nordell , and Erik Shonstrom . This we...
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An interview from the archives with cancer survivor, yoga teacher and author Tari Prinster . We discuss her 2014 book Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and I...
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Our second NaNoWriMo check-in of the month is a conversation with Vermont Author Reina Pennington , military history expert and former Norwich University Professor. This week's second Write...
Vermont Poet and Publisher Samantha Kolber, of Rootstock Publishing . One of this week's Write the Book Prompts comes from Samantha Kolber, who suggests writing for seven minutes without st...
Angela Palm moderates this Fall 2022 Green Mountain Book Festival panel on Memoir, featuring fellow Vermont Authors Jay Parini, Brett Ann Stanciu , and former Governor Madeleine May Kunin. ...
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Local author and professor Dr. Millicent Eidson , who writes a series of novels concerning the work of fictional CDC veterinarian Dr. Maya Maguire. A regular NaNoWriMo participant, Millie spoke ...
Live radio interview with Roseanne Montillo , author of Deliberate Cruelty (Atria Books). Roseanne Montillo was kind enough to offer a Write the Book Prompt during our conversation. Keep a...
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Author Thomas H. McNeely , whose new collection is Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Thomas H. Mc...
Writer, speaker and storyteller Gareth Higgins , author of how not to be afraid: Seven Ways to Live When Everything Seems Terrifying (Broadleaf Books ). Gareth Higgins was kind enough to al...
Vermont author and poet Rebecca Valley , author of the chapbook The Salvageman , whose new book is Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids - Hijinks, Heists, Mysteries and More (Bloom Books for Young...
An interview from the archives with veteran Boston Globe Reporter Stephen Kurkjian , author of Master Thieves , the story of the the largest art theft in history, published by PublicAffairs ....
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The editors of Vermont Almanac discuss their work. A recording of a Green Mountain Book Festival panel discussion featuring Virginia Barlow, Dave Mance III, and Patrick White. This week’...
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Guest Interviewer Kim MacQueen speaks with John Killacky, author of Because Art , and Mark Redmond , author of Called , both published by Onion River Press . Last week the Green Mountain Bo...
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Writer, editor and photographer Kimberly Garrett Brown , whose new book is Cora's Kitchen (Inanna Publications ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to consider an unlikely friendship. W...
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A new interview with Vermont author Doug Wilhelm about his nonfiction book, Catalysts for Change: How Nonprofits and a Foundation Are Helping Shape Vermont's Future (Rootstock ). This week�...
Two interviews from the archives - with our old music! - with Vermont author and editor Angela Palm and Vermont poet Malisa Garlieb . Angela Palm's collection Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere ...
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Vermont Poet Daniel Lusk , who's new collection is Every Slow Thing (Kelsay Books ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to consider what Daniel calls his “farthings,” tiny Zen-like po...
New York Times bestselling author Fiona Barton , whose new novel is Local Gone Missing (Berkley ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write about an altercation between someone who live...
An interview from the archives (with our old music!) with Vermont poet and UVM Professor Stephen Cramer. We discussed his book From the Hip: A Concise History of Hip Hop (in sonnets). Since that...
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A new interview with the author Mohsin Hamid , whose latest novel is The Last White Man (Riverhead ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write about a drastic change in a character’...
Vermont poet Laura Budofsky Wisniewski, the author of Sanctuary, Vermont (Orison ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Laura Budofsky Wisniewski. Set...
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Vermont photographer and writer across genres Shanta Lee Gander , whose debut poetry collection, Ghettoclaustrophobia: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions)...
An interview from the archives with novelist and story writer J. Robert Lennon . We discussed his story collection, See You in Paradise, published by Graywolf Press . Last year he published two ...
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An interview from the archives with award winning writer, educator and translator Wendy Call . This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to choose one of the following sentences, and translate i...
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An interview with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan about her new novel The Candy House (Scribner ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Jenni...
An interview with 2019 Quill Prose Prize winner, Carlos Allende , about his novel, Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love (Red Hen Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously sugge...
Author Jori Lewis , whose debut nonfiction book is Slaves for Peanuts (The New Press) . This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Jori Lewis. If you’re workin...
An interview from the archives with bestselling author Meg Wolitzer , about her novel for young adults, Belzhar (Dutton Books for Young Readers). One of her latest projects is hosting Selected S...
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This month, the words of celebrated Vermont poet David Budbill take center stage in Sutras for a Suffering World , a concert featuring Vermont and New York artists and music by composers Willia...
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Vermont Author Jennifer McMahon , whose new novel is The Children on the Hill (Simon & Schuster ). Jennifer's recent reads include: The Fervor, by Alma Katsu My Heart Is a Chainsaw, by St...
Melanie Finn , winner of the Vermont Book Award in Fiction 2021, and author of The Hare (Two Dollar Radio ). Melanie's favorite recent reads include: Empireland, by Sathnam Sanghera On The ...
Kurt Johnson and his daughter, Ellie Johnson , who have collaborated on a new novel titled The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic (Arcade ). This week I have two Write...
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Maya Rodale , best-selling and award-winning author of funny feminist historical fiction and romance. Her latest novel is Mad Girls of New York (Berkley ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt w...
Michelle Huneven 's latest is Search , a funny novel about a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes (Penguin ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt comes from Michelle ...
An interview from the archives - complete with the old music! - with Robert Boswell, award-winning author of seven novels, including Tumbledown (Graywolf Press) . Robert Boswell published a ...
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An interview from the archives with Jacqueline Woodson , about her National Book Award winning memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books ). Have you ever tried to write a story...
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Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey , editors of a new anthology: Coolest American Stories 2022 (Coolest Stories Press). This year marked the inaugural publication of the book, which will come out eac...
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A conversation from the archives with the author Vikram Chandra about his nonfiction book, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press ). This week’s Write the B...
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An interview from the archives with local author and Queen City Ghostwalk Guide Thea Lewis about her book Haunted Inns and Ghostly Getaways of Vermont , published by The History Press. This w...
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An interview with Rachel Foster , co-founder and executive council co-chair of World Without Exploitation , who recently wrote an opinion piece in Vermont Digger : "Burlington controversy part of...
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An interview with the author Karen Joy Fowler , whose new historical novel is Booth , which concerns the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. The...
An archive interview (from my Radiator broadcast days!) from the archives with New Hampshire author Toby Ball , author of three crime novels published by Overlook Press: The Vaults, about which ...
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A new interview with Vermont Author Kathryn Davis , who has a memoir out: Aurelia, Aurélia (Graywolf Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Kathryn...
Vermont Author and Documentarian Jim Carrier , whose book Charity: The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina came out as an audiobook in 2021. This week's Wr...
Paula Martinac , author of seven novels. Since we spoke in 2017 about The Ada Decades (Bywater Books ), she has published three others. Her latest is Dear Miss Cushman (Bywater Books ). T...
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Vermont author and exceptional literary citizen Nancy Means Wright passed away on January 19 at the age of 95. This week I aired an interview with Nancy from the early days of the show. Many than...
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An interview from the archives with the author Rachel Urquhart about her novel The Visionist (Little Brown ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to invent a group that has diminished from...
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Author Caitlin Hamilton Summie , whose new novel is Geographies of the Heart (Fomite ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Caitlin Hamilton Summie. Consi...
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Two shorter interviews from the archives: Jojo Moyes , about her book One Plus One (Penguin ); and Heath Hardage Lee, about Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause (Potomac Books ). Today...
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An interview from the archives with Sue William Silverman about her memoir, The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo Saxon Jew (University of Nebraska). This week’s Write the Book...
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A conversation from the archives with Vermont children’s author Elizabeth Bluemle , about her picture book, TAP TAP, BOOM BOOM (Candlewick Press ). My son and I once experienced a hurricane ...
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Interview from the archives with award-winning author Joshua Ferris on his novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Little Brown and Company ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write ab...
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Vermont Author Joy Cohen , whose debut novel is 37 (Guernica Editions ). This week's Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest Joy Cohen during our conversation. She suggests ...
Poet A.E. Hines , whose debut collection is Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag ). A new prompt for the week comes from A.E. Hines, and touches on something we discussed during the interview you ...
A new interview with Swiss Author Peter Stamm , whose latest story collection is It's Getting Dark (Other Press ). Peter Stamm generously suggested a Write the Book Prompt for today’s show...
Wendy Sanford , author, editor, and a founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective . Her debut memoir is These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class (...
Author and Journalist Jonah Lehrer, whose new book is Mystery: A Seduction, A Strategy, A Solution (Avid Reader Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was suggested by my guest, Jonah Leh...
A conversation from the archives with the author Anne Lamott about her book Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son (Riverhead ), which concerns being a grandparent. I myself be...
Award-Winning Nigerian Author Uwem Akpan , whose debut novel is New York, My Village (Norton ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write about a time that your own success or advanceme...
Vermont Author Michael Freed-Thall , whose debut novel is Horodno Burning (Rootstock ). Consider this Write the Book Prompt, inspired by my conversation with Michael: try using history as a fr...
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Vermont Author Melissa Perley , whose 2019 book The Violin Family (Rootstock ) was recently named a winner in the Children’s Category of the 2021 Indie Reader Discovery Awards. Here's a musi...
A conversation from the archives with Vermont author and former president of Vermont College of Fine Arts , Thomas Christopher Greene , about his novel The Headmaster's Wife (Thomas Dunne ). ...
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Award-winning author Donald Antrim , whose new memoir is One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival (Norton ). In presenting his viewpoint that suicide is a disease, Donald Antrim exp...
Award-winning director and playwright Lisa Peterson , who has penned a translation of Hamlet for the Play on Shakespeare project, a series published by ACMRS Press. This week’s Write the Bo...
Award-winning author Ruth Ozeki , whose latest novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness (Viking ). In our conversation, Ruth mentioned that she has to dig really deep to find her characters and...
Vermont Author and former WTB Co-Host Gary Miller , whose new nonfiction book for students and their teachers is There's No Way to Do It Wrong!: How to Get Young Learners to Take Risks, Tell Stor...
Vermont Poet Ralph Culver , whose new collection is A Passable Man (Mad Hat Press). In his poem, "Tableau," Ralph Culver writes about one person sharing a space with two other versions of hims...
Interview with the poet Maggie Smith , whose new collection of poems, is Goldenrod (One Signal ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt, suggested by my guest, Maggie Smith, is based on the work ...
An interview from the archives with the author Jessica Hendry Nelson , who has a new book out - co-authored with fellow former Write the Book Guest Sean Prentiss : Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A...
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Vermont Author Nancy Hayes Kilgore , in a conversation about her new novel, Bitter Magic (Sunbury Press ). As we mentioned during our interview, one character who Nancy Hayes Kilgore describes...
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An interview from the archives with consultant and teacher Carolyn Conger, PhD , about her book Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death (Plume ). This week’s W...
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Poet, editor, scholar, and musician Tony Trigilio , whose new collection is Proof Something Happened , winner of the 2020 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize . This week’s Write the Book Prompt was gener...
Best-selling author Caroline Leavitt , whose novel With or Without You just came out in paperback (Algonquin Books ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, ...
Interview from the archives with poet and prose writer Barbara Henning , regarding her book A Swift Passage (Quale Press ). I have family visiting this week - lots of loved ones filling our tw...
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Bestselling author Christina Baker Kline , whose novel The Exiles , came out in paperback this month from Custom House . This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest...
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Local author, yoga practitioner, and teacher Kyle Ferguson , whose new book (with co-author Anthony Grudin) is Beyond Hot Yoga: On Patterns, Practice and Movement (North Atlantic Books ). Kyl...
Author Patrick Hicks , whose new novel is In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program (Stephen F. Austin University Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt w...
Award-winning Irish Author Rachel Donohue , whose new novel is The Temple House Vanishing (Algonquin ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Rachel Donohue...
Interview from the archives with Vermont Poet Daniel Lusk . This conversation took place at the time that his collection Kin was published (Maple Tree Editions ). This week’s Write the Book...
Author and award-winning poet Natasha Sajé , whose new book is Terroir: Love, Out of Place (Trinity University Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my gues...
Marcia Butler , author of Oslo, Maine (Central Avenue Publishing ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Marcia Butler, who suggests writing a 1200 word shor...
An interview from the archives with Vermont Author Alec Hastings, whose 2013 debut novel was Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers: A Tale of Adventure , published by The Public Press . This one fi...
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Award winning British Author Rupert Thomson , whose latest novel is Barcelona Dreaming (Other Press ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was inspired by my conversation with Rupert Thomson...
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An interview from the archives with British Author Diane Setterfield . We discuss her novel, Bellman & Black (Atria/Emily Bestler Books ). Diane Setterfield’s novel Bellman & Black begins ...
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Vermont poet and author Erika Nichols-Frazer , who has edited a new collection on themes of mental health, A Tether to This World: Stories and Poems About Recovery (Main Street Rag) . We are join...
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Author David Laskin , in a conversation from 2013 about his book. The Family: A Journey Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century (Penguin) . In March 2021, he published a novel, What Sammy Knew...
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Vermont Author Joseph Covais, whose debut novel is Quiet Room , the first in the "Psychotherapy With Ghosts" trilogy (New Line ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to consider an alterna...
Author David Arnold , whose new novel is The Electric Kingdom (Viking Books for Young Readers ). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, David Arnold. His first...
Two interviews from the archives. Ralph Culver , author of Both Distances (Anabiosis ), has a new book coming in the fall: A Passable Man (MadHat Press ). And James Fallon is the author of The P...
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