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A YA Bestseller Enters The Adult World

Thu, 11/10/2016 - 1:09pm
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By
Alexander Wilburn

Gayle Forman may be a new name to adult readers, but she will be well known to their daughters, with her New York Times bestselling young adult novels playing a pivotal role in the literary mythology of the contemporary teenage girl. 

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Farming: Conservation, Adaptation and Beauty

Wed, 10/26/2016 - 4:28pm
Books: ‘The Shepherd’s Life’ and ‘The Shepherd’s View’
By
B. Murkoff

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A Hoax, or Blessed?

Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:26am
Books: ‘The Wonder’
By
B. Murkoff

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Witches, Alcohol and More

Thu, 09/22/2016 - 2:17pm
By
Marsden Epworth

As Peter Vermilyea tells us, his latest book, “Wicked Litchfield County,” reveals the darker side of human nature. These stories are about a number of inglorious, or sometimes just eccentric, characters who once troubled the landscape of this generally amiable corner of Connecticut.
Which, of course, makes for good reading.

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A World Full of Stories

Thu, 09/15/2016 - 9:48am
Books: ‘A Murder of Crows’

Wassaic, N.Y., resident Terrence McCauley has an entire fictional universe swimming through his head “in a big soup.” As ideas rise to the top, he grabs the nearest device — his phone, his iPad, his computer — and starts to write. 

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A Modern Take on Austen

Thu, 09/08/2016 - 2:13pm
Books: ‘Eligible’
By
Fred Baumgarten

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How Theater Came to Sharon and Other Tales

Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:32am
Books: ‘Once a Pulp Man’
By
Marsden Epworth

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Righting Wrongs And Other Entertainments

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 10:39am
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By
Marsden Epworth

Peter Steiner is a cartoonist, the one who made The New Yorker drawing of one hound telling another, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”  

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An Unsettling Tale, Honestly Told

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 11:44am
Books: ‘What Was Mine’
By
Kitty Benedict

Helen Klein Ross, a resident of Lake-ville, has  a new book out this week: “What Was Mine.” It is set in vibrant scenes in New York City, California, China and the New Jersey suburbs, and it is daring and remarkable. She is not afraid of violating  (successfully) the standard “rule” in fiction of maintaining a single, constant voice.  Instead she competently uses multiple voices of several characters which could confuse (even annoy) a reader. In Ross’s hands, amazingly, neither occurs.

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About Taming, and Nearly Wrecking, Litchfield County

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 4:30pm
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By
Marsden Epworth

Among the six people recognized  by the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council this year for contributions to Litchfield County was historian Peter C. Vermilyea. He teaches at Housatonic Valley Regional High School and Western Connecticut State University, and he writes books about history that are a pleasure to read.

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