Rich Bennett
@vtreaderfarmer.bsky.social
Retired • Reading and farming in Vermont
Words for Memorial Day
May 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Words for Memorial Day
Today’s asparagus harvest
May 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Today’s asparagus harvest
April reading - Tim O’Brien’s TheThings They Carried, Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Rasheed Newsom’s My Government Means to Kill Me, Patrick E. Horrian’s Pennsylvania Station, and Jacques Leslie’s The Mark. (Northern Flicker in the background.)
May 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
April reading - Tim O’Brien’s TheThings They Carried, Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Rasheed Newsom’s My Government Means to Kill Me, Patrick E. Horrian’s Pennsylvania Station, and Jacques Leslie’s The Mark. (Northern Flicker in the background.)
March reads - Sarah Schulman’s epic work about ACT-UP - Let the Record Show, Patrick Nathan’s Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist, Daniel H. Turtels’s debut novel Greetings from Asbury Park (cuz I grew up in the area), and Nicolas Freeling’s disturbing Some Day Tmorrow.
April 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
March reads - Sarah Schulman’s epic work about ACT-UP - Let the Record Show, Patrick Nathan’s Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist, Daniel H. Turtels’s debut novel Greetings from Asbury Park (cuz I grew up in the area), and Nicolas Freeling’s disturbing Some Day Tmorrow.
February reads: Best American Short Stories 2024, editor Lauren Groff; Gliff by Ali Smith; A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt; Minor Detail by Adania Shibli; I am David by Anne Holm; Under One Roof by Barry Martin
February 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
February reads: Best American Short Stories 2024, editor Lauren Groff; Gliff by Ali Smith; A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt; Minor Detail by Adania Shibli; I am David by Anne Holm; Under One Roof by Barry Martin
January reads: Fairyland, Alysia Abbott’s @mizabbott.bsky.social poignant memoir about growing up in 70s SF with her gay, single father; Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte; What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery; and for book group Sweetland by Michael Crummey and Clear by Carys Davies.
January 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
January reads: Fairyland, Alysia Abbott’s @mizabbott.bsky.social poignant memoir about growing up in 70s SF with her gay, single father; Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte; What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery; and for book group Sweetland by Michael Crummey and Clear by Carys Davies.
Last year’s lettuce seeds under our grow lights promise fresh midwinter greens.
January 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Last year’s lettuce seeds under our grow lights promise fresh midwinter greens.
In the heart of winter, a package from Johnny’s Seeds in Winslow, ME can do wonders to brighten a day.
January 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the heart of winter, a package from Johnny’s Seeds in Winslow, ME can do wonders to brighten a day.