Alone Together with Andre Dubus III, Major Jackson, Jessica Keener, Sadia Hassan, Jennifer Haupt

Ancestor Trouble with Maud Newton and Rebecca Donner 9/9/22

On Friday, September 9, 2022, the Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted authors Maud Newton, and Rebecca Donner to . . .

A Literary Cocktail Hour-Very Cold People with Sarah Manguso

The Brattleboro Literary Festival presents our monthly virtual Literary Cocktail Hour with acclaimed novelist Sarah . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour - Grant Faulkner with Brian Mooney

On Friday, June 10 at 5:00 pm Literary Cocktail Hour featured NaNoWriMo director Grant Faulkner who was in . . .

Riverman - An American Odyssey with author Ben McGrath

The Brattleboro Literary Festival's Cocktail Hour this month featured New Yorker writer Ben McGrath. For decades, Dick . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour with Jonathan Evison

In the July 1845 issue of the Democratic Review, an editorial urged “the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to . . .

A conversation with author Katherine Paterson 11/12/21

On November 11th, Brooks Memorial Library hosted a presentation by Katherine Paterson, two-time winner of the . . .

Leah McGrath Goodman - Author of Ariana Huffington

Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. Journalist Leah McGrath Goodman . . .

Print Town: A Panel Discussion

Thank you to all the 36 writers who contributed to Print Town, with special thanks (Thanks not to be capitalized!) to . . .

Russell Banks and Scott Spencer - The Nature of Memory

At the center of Russell Banks new novel Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard . . .

Dorothy Wickenden - The Agitators

From the executive editor of The New Yorker, Dorothy Wickenden, comes a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history . . .

Joseph Mazur, "The Clock Mirage"

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why . . .

Mateo Askaripour and Lauren Oyler - Real…and Unreal

The world is changing so fast that we often find ourselves asking…could that really happen? Did that really happen? . . .

Shanta Lee Gander/Alexandria Hall - The First Time

What does it mean to move away from the shadow of one’s mother, parents, or family in order to come into being within . . .

Jo Ann Beard - "Festival Days," with Carin Pratt

When The Fourth State of Matter, her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was . . .

Brattleboro Literary Festival Panel - Why Black Books Matter

In her new book, Read Until You Understand, Farah Jasmine Griffin asks these questions. What might engagement with . . .

Anna North and Jim Shepard - Survival

Anna North’s book Outlawed is the story of Ada. In 1893, on the day of her wedding, the 17 year old’s life looks . . .

Imbolo Mbue - How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were is set in the fictional African village of Kosawa and tells . . .

Mark Wunderlich/Dan Chiasson - Life and Death

God of Nothingness is a book for those who have seen death up close or even quietly wished for it. In these poems, . . .

Kia Corthron and Jakob Guanzon - Children of Poverty

In Kia Korthron’s new novel Moon and the Mars, beginning in 1857, biracial seven-year-old orphan Theo Brigid Brook. . . .

Panel - Are We Having A Moment?

Poetry has famously flourished in times of crisis—including pandemics past—thanks to poets and writers galvanized by . . .

Chard deNiord/Elizabeth Powell - The World We See

With Chard deNiord’s sixth collection of poems, In My Unknowing, we find ourselves in a world beheld by the spark of . . .

Jonathan Alter - "His Very Best, Jimmy Carter, A Life"

From one of America’s most-respected journalists and modern historians comes His Very Best, Jimmy Carter, A Life, the . . .

Robert Watson on "Washington's Washington" - George Washington's Final Battle

George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and . . .

Thomas Dyja - Author of New York, New York, New York

Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New . . .

Francine Prose/Miranda Beverly Whitmore - Rediscovering Secrets

The past often comes back to haunt us; secrets bind us together and tear us apart. Master storyteller Francine Prose . . .

Write Action Spotlight - Readings from Write Action, Brattleboro

Spotlight Reading features writers from The Brattleboro area who have published a book within the past year (allowing . . .

Authors Heather Clark and Maggie Doherty

In 1950s America, women were not supposed to be ambitious. In fact, women were respected for not pursuing their own . . .

Louis Menand and Michael Gorra, "Culture and The Cold War"

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, . . .

Jia Lynn Yang - One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, . . .

Peter Filkins and Jennifer Militello - New England Poets

Exploring the space between nature and culture, the poems in Peter Filkins’ new collection Water / Music anchor . . .

Cultural Myths - Sanjena Sathian and Kirstin Valdez Quade

A myth is often a traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes. Sanjena . . .

Sabina Murray and Dariel Suarez - Families and Dictators

Dariel Suarez’s book, The Playwright’s House, tells the story of a happily married, successful young Cuban attorney . . .

Bryan Burrough and Jude Joffe-Block, "Legends of the West"

There's no piece of history more known to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels . . .

Ralph Eubanks with Steve Yarbrough - A Place Like Mississippi

The South has produced some of America’s most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names such as . . .

Edward Hirsch and Jane Hirshfield - Poetry We Feel

In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to . . .

Telling Stories With Poetry - Vijay Seshadri and Kerrin McCadden

In this, his fourth collection, That Was Now, This Is Then , Vijay Seshadri affirms his place as one of America’s . . .

Ann and Tony Gengarelly - Another World

“This must be another world.”  These opening lines of Hannah Christensen’s poem introduce us to Another World, an . . .

The Writing Life - Lily King and Jean Hanff Korelitz

So what makes a writer successful? We hear about big splashy seven-figure deals, but those are definitely outliers in . . .

A Creative Force - A Panel Exploration of Black Creativity

The creative process has long been explored through time, but what does creativity look like through an intersectional . . .

Carol Diehl - "Banksy - Completed"

Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly . . .

Brattleboro Literary Festival Panel - Poetry, Identity, and Coming of Age

Diana Whitney’s inclusive anthology for teen girls, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour—Moon Jar with Poet Didi Jackson

On Friday, August 13 at 5:00 pm, The Brattleboro Literary Festival continued its 20th anniversary year with Didi . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour—Home on the Range with KT Sparks

KT Sparks is a writer and farmer whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Pank, and elsewhere. KT received an AB . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour - Julia Cooke and Ann Hood

The Brattleboro Literary Festival hosts author Julia Cooke and her newest book, "Come Fly the World," about the lives . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour with Jonathan Slaght

The Brattleboro Literary Festival hostws this conversation with American researcher and conservationist Jonathan . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour with Jay Parini

The Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted a conversation with poet, novelist, and biographer Jay Parini, on Friday, . . .

Janis Joplin: Pearl with Holly George-Warren and Jeff Tamarkin

Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren captures the mercurial life and success of Janis Joplin. This . . .

Life Lessons, with authors Nick Flynn and Roger Rosenblatt

When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in his imagination for . . .

The Consequences of a Decision with Amir Ahmadi Arian and Megha Majumdar

In Megha Majumdar’s book A Burning, a woman in India witnesses a terrorist attack on the subway, then makes a decision . . .

The World Is Music with Jennifer Rosner and Erin Almond

In Jennifer Rosner's novel, The Yellow Bird Sings, a young woman and her 5 year old musical prodigy daughter are . . .

Literary Travels with Alden Jones and Mary Morris

The Wanting Was a Wilderness defies genre—part literary analysis, part memoir, part rumination on memoir and memoir . . .

Politics & Policies with Paul Krugman and Sarah Chayes

In Paul Krugman's latest book he takes stock of where the United States has come from and where it’s headed. . . .

Uncovering the Past with Maya Shanbhag Lang and Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Families are complicated and the people you are closest to are often the ones you understand the least. In the wake of . . .

Female Spies and Their Secrets with Lynne Olson and Arthur Magida

In this year, the 75th anniversary year of WWII, we celebrate the role women played in the war with two books about . . .

A Homeless Belonging with Nikita Stewart

Nikita Stewart's new book Troop 6000, is the inspiring true story of the first Girl Scout troop founded for and by . . .

A Wild Winter Swan: Retelling Fairy Tales with Maria Tatar and Gregory Maguire

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times . . .

Emily’s World with Martha Ackerman and Marta McDowell

Martha Ackmann’s These Fevered Days is an engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s greatest . . .

Where We Are (and how we got here) with Steve Almond

Steve Almond’s Bad Stories argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell . . .

Alone Together with Andre Dubus III, Major Jackson, Jessica Keener, Sadia Hassan, Jennifer Haupt

Join Jennifer Haupt, editor of Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19, and contributing . . .

Life Decisions with Sam Brakeley and Sebastian Matthews

In 2011, Sebastian Matthews' family was in a major car accident. They were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a . . .

Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? with Ezekiel Emanuel

The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on health care. Yet, for all that expense, the US health . . .

In Retrospect with Jill McCorkle and Andre Dubus III

The passage of time often causes people to reflect on their past and often their family secrets begin to come to life. . . .

In Short with Susan Minot and Peter Orner

Peter Orner’s Molly Brown and other Stories provides many short takes—on a first date that turns into a late-night . . .

Double Standards with Deesha Philyaw and Kelly Jo Ford

Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies features four generations of characters grappling with who they . . .

Poets in Conversation: Poetry and Social Justice

Join us for a conversation with five extraordinary poets on the topic of poetry and social justice. We’re delighted to . . .

On Native Lands with David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Stephen Graham Jones

In Stephen Graham Jones The Only Good Indians, four American Indian men who were childhood friends from the Blackfeet . . .

Northern Landscapes with Peter Geye and Julia Philips

Join Peter Geye and Julia Phillips in a discussion of fiction in frozen landscapes and the role that location plays in . . .

Dystopian Worlds with Diane Cook and Hilary Leichter

Diane Cook's A New Wilderness, is a wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a . . .

The End of the Earth with Julia Carrick Dalton and Andrew Krivak

In Andrew Krivak's The Bear is set in an Edenic future where a girl and her father live close to the land in the . . .

Midlife Changes with Amity Gaige and Caroline Leavitt

In Sea Wife, Amity Gaige introduces us to Juliet who is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour - with Archer Mayor and Mystery Writers

The Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted this virtual Literary Cocktail Hour, featuring three extraordinary mystery . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour: Danielle Trussoni Discusses, "The Ancestor: A Novel"

Tim Weed  interviews Danielle Trussoni on her new novel, The Ancestor, a literary gothic novel that explores the . . .

Literary Cocktail Hour with Chard deNiord and Novelist, Vincent Panella

The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites you to join us for a virtual Literary Cocktail Hour, featuring former . . .

Kate Greathead and Joan Silber

From October 13, 2018. Kate Greathead proves herself an impassioned observer and insightful storyteller in her . . .

Tom Sleigh, Cara Blue-Adams, and Alia Malek

From October 13, 2018. Cara Blue Adams will be in conversation with authors Alia Malek and Tom Sleighabout their new . . .

Kerri Arsenault, John Freeman, Emily Raboteau (2017)

As the refugee crisis convulses whole swathes of the world and there are daily updates about the rise of homelessness . . .

Tom Callahan, James Dodson (2017)

It’s been said that the smaller the ball, the better the writing, and two of the best in the business prove it with . . .

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Helene Stapinski (2017)

Join authors Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and Helene Stapinski as they read from their work and talk about their . . .

Poetry of Witness Panel (2017)

Poetry of Witness: Where the Personal Meets the  Political — A Panel Discussion on Writing and Witnessing in an Age of . . .

Ron Powers (2017)

Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic, has studied and written about Mark . . .

Stephen Kiernan, Robert Madrygin (2017)

Join authors Stephen Kiernan and Robert Madrygin for this opening night talk from the 2017 Brattleboro Literary . . .

Avi (2017)

Join prolific author Avi for this opening night talk from the 2017 Brattleboro Literary Festival hosted at Brooks . . .

Robert Watson (2017)

Robert Watson ’s new book, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn , tells the chilling story of the HMS Jersey , a prison ship . . .

Nancy Marie Brown (2016)

Join author Nancy Marie Brown for her talk on her book 'Ivory Vikings' hosted at Brooks Memorial Library on October . . .

Lauret Savoy (2016)

Join Lauret Savoy, the acclaimed author of 'Trace' for this talk from the 2016 Brattleboro Literary Festival, held at . . .

Robin MacArthur, Jensen Beach (2016)

Join authors Robin MacArthur and Jensen Beach as they speak at 118 Elliot Street as part of the 2016 Brattleboro . . .

Joseph Mazur, Larry Olmsted, Angela Palm (2016)

Join nonfiction authors Joseph Mazur, Larry Olmsted and Angela Palm as they tak about the relationship between their . . .

Bill Littlefield, Glenn Stout (2016)

Join sports aficionados Bill Littlefield and Glenn Stout for this presentation for the 2016 Brattleboro Literary . . .

Harry Bliss, Josh Neufeld (2016)

Join cartoonists Harry Bliss and Josh Neufeld as they present their two very different takes on the comicbook . . .

Arun Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus, Evan Turk (2016)

Learn more about the Grandfather Gandhi children's book series from co-authors Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus as well . . .

Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf (2016)

Join authors Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf as they discuss their book “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” Thomas . . .

Charlotte Gordon, Kate Bolick (2016)

Join authors Charlotte Gordon and Kate Bolick as they discuss the intersection of women, history, literature, . . .

Alice Fogel, Chard deNiord (2015)

 Alice Fogel is New Hampshire Poet Laureate. Her latest collection of poetry, "Intervals" was inspired by Johan . . .

Ann Beattie (2015)

The Brattleboro Literary Festival 2015 last lecture at Brooks Memorial Library futured author Ann Beattie. Ms. Beattie . . .

Ernest Hebert, Castle Freeman (2015)

Vermont authors, Ernest Hebert and Castle Freeman read from new works of theirs for the Brattleboro Literary Festival . . .

Howard Axelrod (2015)

BRATTLEBORO LITERARLY FESTIVAL 2015 - HOWARD AXELRODIn his remarkable literary debut, "The Point of Vanishing: A . . .

Maria Tatar (2015)

Join author Maria Tatar, the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, for her 2015 Brattleboro . . .

Forrest Gander, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (2015)

Join Forrest Gander and Rachel Eliza Griffiths read slection of their poetry as part of the 2015 Brattleboro Literary . . .

Kenny Bruno, Beth Handman (2014)

Co-authors of the new series of books for children Josie Goes Green, Kenny Bruno and Beth Handman present at the . . .

Ronald Levao, Susan Wolfson (2014)

Both professors of English literature, authors Ronald Levao and Susan Wolfson discuss before an engaged audience at . . .

Laurel Neme (2014)

Join Laurel Neme at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for this 2014 Brattleboro Literary Festival talk that . . .

Rick Bass (2014)

Join author Rick Bass as he speaks at Brooks Memorial Library as part of the 2014 Brattleboro Literary Festival.Rick . . .

Joseph Ellis (2014)

Author of eight Revolution-era books, Joseph J. Ellis presents during the 2014 Brattleboro Literary Festival, bringing . . .

Raouf Mama (2014)

Join Distinguished Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University Raouf Mama as he discusses his newly . . .

Jay Parini (2014)

Jay Parini speaks on his books in this talk entitled 'The Human Face of God' during this October 4, 2014 presentation . . .

Daniel Smith (2013)

It was the Brattleboro Retreat that brought to the 2013 Literary Festival author and editor Daniel Smith to discuss . . .

Tom Folsom, Lily Koppel (2013)

Children’s author Jo Knowles and nonfiction writer Lily Koppel ("The Astronaut Wives Club")present together as part of . . .

Howard Norman (2013)

Author Howard Norman offers an exclusive preview of his upcoming novel "Next Life Might Be Kinder" slated for release . . .

Tom Kizzia (2013)

Author Tom Kizzia discusses his tale of modern day homecoming "Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness . . .

Christopher Castellani, Roland Merullo (2013)

Christopher Castellani and Roland Merullo, both Italian-American authors, give readings of their works and then answer . . .

Andrew Nagorski (2013)

Discussing his latest book, NYC think-tank exec Andrew Nagorski paints a compelling portrait of Nazi Germany, as seen . . .

Howard Frank Mosher (2012)

Brattleboro Literary Festival 2012: Howard Frank Mosher

Tom Santopietro, Mark Rotella (2012)

Authors Tom Santopietro and Mark Rotella present this talk entitled 'Embracing the Inner Italian' at Brooks Memorial . . .

Local Author Showcase (2012)

Bratt Literary Festival 2012 HD: Local Author Showcase