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Jerry Carbone
@jjcitaliano.bsky.social
Italian-American, Italian-speaker wannabe, Retired Librarian, practicing genealogist, whetstonebrookgenealogy.com & Windham County Genealogy Interest Group, recidivist trumpet player; Authors' Committee, Brattleboro Literary Festival.
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Hey #literaryfiction readers. Check out the videos coming up on this youtube playlist.
Amazing Writers Almanac today open.substack.com/pub/thewrite...
The Writer’s Almanac from Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Writer’s Almanac from Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hey #literaryfiction readers. Check out the videos coming up on this youtube playlist.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Thank you again for joining us this year for our 24th annual #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! We'd love to hear from you and see what you loved and how we might make improvements for future events. Please take a minute and fill out this quick survey for us: bit.ly/LitFestSurve...
#Vermont #BookFestival
Brattleboro Literary Festival 2025 Audience Survey-Tell us what you think .
If you were able to attend the Festival October 17-19 we would appreciate you completing this SHORT, EASY ten question survey and give us any comments on what you experienced at the Festival.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy Halloween says Linus
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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They are going after big donor Dems like George Soros
This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
October 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Let’s go Festival lovers!!
Tomorrow! @brattlebororetreat.bsky.social presents An Evening with @garygulman.bsky.social to benefit the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro, VT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7pm. Purchase your tickets here: latchis.com/event/an-eve... #TheGreatDepresh #Film
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@vtbookfest.bsky.social encourages book buyers when they shop online to use your website. The 24th Literary Festival takes off Oct17-19
Supporting independent bookstores will never go out of style 📚
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@garygulman.bsky.social is a brilliant comedian, who has a moving story to tell about finding hope in connection, and that help is available even in one’s darkest times.” - Kurt White, VP of Community & Communications, @brattlebororetreat.bsky.social. Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Link in bio.
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
August 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We're delighted to welcome #RachelTrousdale to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Her #poetry collection, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, was the 2024 winner of the Cardinal Prize selected by Robert Pinsky. Join us in Brattleboro, #Vermont for a weekend of author readings,10/17-19.
August 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Pls welcome the #PulitzerPrizeWinning art critic, #SebastianSmee, to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! His latest book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism, was published in 2024 and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024. (Photo by Amber Davis Tourlentes). #nonfiction #BMAC
August 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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
August 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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We hope to see you there!
August 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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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
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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
August 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
An impressive lineup of #poets & #poetry on Saturday 10/18. See schedule brattleborolitfest.org/wp-content/u...
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We're thrilled to welcome debut author, #RobFranklin, to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Franklin's novel, Great Black Hope, was published in June. Join us live in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont! October 17-19. All events are FREE and open to the public. Full schedule in bio. #fiction #Vermont
August 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The lies from the Bondi-Patel hydra will surprise even Zeus.
BREAKING: Trump’s attorney general and FBI director will *finally* be called to testify before Congress after deceiving their base and inadvertently sparking days of national controversy.

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August 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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We are pleased to welcome poet, Dzvinia Orlowsky, to the 2025 #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Orlowsky's latest collection of poetry, Those Absences Now Closest, was published in 2024. All events are FREE & open to the public. #DzviniaOrlowsky #poetry #Brattleboro #Vermont #books
August 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM