#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

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known mainly for its auto-repair manuals, and Dune was published in 1965. known mainly for its auto-repair manuals, and Dune was published in 1965. It's a science fiction novel about a desert planet, but also about ecology, politics, and religion. Dune has sold more than 12 million copies.

Herbert was so fascinated by this topic that he ended up with way too much material and never wrote the article. But he kept researching for six years, and then he wrote a novel that got rejected by 23 publishers. But finally it was accepted by Chilton, a minor publishing house in Philadelphia>>>>

You might like this Tim. Writer's Almanac this morning, today is Frank Herbert's birthday. Author of "Dune." He was asked to write a"feature article about an ecological project: a government-sponsored project to halt the spread of sand dunes on the Oregon coast.>>>

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.

@samsussman.bsky.social is reviewed in Oct 5 print edition NYT, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

Wonderful early media coverage.
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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

Oz trying to be normal. Don’t “fall “ for it!!

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...