Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

Toi Derricotte's literary memoir THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS has won a cluster of awards and lots of well-deserved attention. But don't let ...

It's a short title, contrasty and "in your face," nearly as short as a text message. CHAT is Archer Mayor's 18th in the Jo...

(Photo by Leatha Kendrick, Robert Frost's home at The Frost Place) Hurrah, I've finished revisions on the YA novel of mine that will...

She left behind Connecticut, where she was an editor of the Connecticut River Review . She dug into her Craftsbury, Vermont, homestead, tugg...

I'm baking the usual batch of brownies in support of Friday's reading, and it's good to have something concrete to focus on -- b...

[new Barbara Moraff work from Longhouse, limited edition, 2007; see the Longhouse web site in the right-hand column of this page] Barbara Mo...

Here are three good reasons to register for the Vermont Library Conference, held at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, ...

It's still April, so it's still National Poetry Month, and Kingdom Books is hosting Ellen Dudley and Joan Aleshire for a poetry brun...

I'm back, after a week-long trip to and from Seoul for my son's wedding and another five days of dealing with New England power outa...

April 26, Franconia -- see earlier post. Sorry to be brief, am in Korea for my son's wedding, back 4/17.

The Frost Place (Franconia, NH: www.frostplace.org ) still has a few places open in its workshops for this summer, ranging from a specialty...

Here's a gorgeous little "pocket poetry" form, fresh from the press at Bob and Susan Arnold's Longhouse (click their web s...

Hit the Boston Public Library in Copley Square on Saturday April 14 from 10 to 5, and Sunday April 15 from 1 to 4:45, for the seventh annual...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, three organizations in Franconia, N.H., will co-host an evening of readings and conversation about ...

[Intaglio prints embodying the poems of Cleopatra Mathis.] It's been a wildly busy week, and the poetry events of yesterday (Cleopatra M...

The steady sequence of crime fiction by Californian John Lescroart has featured most prominently the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky...

Novelist Andrea Barrett is scheduled to read at the Vermont Studio Center tomorrow night. Bring your questions about process and depth; she...

Saturday March 31, 4 p.m., at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, we participate in that gracious institution's award of the Athenaeum Medal in the...

As a young adult reader, I found my way from THE HOBBIT to the three volumes of THE LORD OF THE RINGS simply -- the books were already publi...

Lips. Tongue. Desire. Belly. Straddling, sweating, entering. This powerful new collection from Vermont/Hawai'i poet Ellen Dudley groans,...