AltWeeklies Wire
'Green Gone Wrong' Uncovers Which Climate Change 'Solutions' are Part of the Problemnew
If you think you're saving the planet by buying compact-fluorescent bulbs and organic, fair trade coffee beans, Heather Rogers' new book might wipe the smug off your face.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
04-15-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Print vs. Pixels: Should Green-Minded Readers Switch to E-Books?new
I love books. I still have the paperback of Wuthering Heights I bought in 1978 for 95 cents, though I can access its complete text on my iPhone. I remember the sights and smells of all my favorite bookstores and libraries, from Burlington to Boston to Berkeley to Paris. So, why am I considering buying an e-reader?
Seven Days |
Margot Harrison |
04-15-2011 |
Books
'Sisters in War': A Vermont Journalist Recounts the Stories of Women in War-Torn Baghdadnew
In 2004, as Baghdad became increasingly dangerous for journalists, Christina Asquith took refuge in the apartment of two sisters. Now she tells their story in Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq, which was published by Random House in September.
Seven Days |
Margot Harrison |
12-09-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Milk Teeth' Couldn't Be More Different Than 'Marley and Me'new
By title alone, Milk Teeth: A Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog would seem to fall into the same cutesy genre as John Grogan's bestselling 2005 memoir. Though it does feature a deviantly behaved Lab and a plethora of lessons on life and love, Robbie Pfeufer Kahn's meditative, soul-searching book couldn’t be more different.
Seven Days |
Amy Lilly |
06-19-2009 |
Nonfiction
Eugene Jarecki Has the 'Big Picture' and a New Book on Warnew
Jareki's print debut supplements his 2006 film, Why We Fight, while the cafe he co-founded in Vermont expresses his "desire to support social betterment."
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
12-29-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A New Book on Vermont Country Stores Reveals Why They're Here for the Long Haulnew
If you go way back to the foggy beginnings of an average Vermont town, the building blocks of the community stack up something like this: First came the church, and then the town hall, the one-room schoolhouse, the tavern, the harness shop, the blacksmith, the itinerant traders and, last but not least, the general store.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
08-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Charles Lindbergh's Daughter Reflects on Turning 60 in Her New Memoirnew
In Reeve Lindbergh's new book Forward From Here, the youngest child of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and author and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of her life spent in the Northeast Kingdom, the "back to the land" movement that led her there, and the consequences -- both mundane and thrilling -- of turning 60.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
08-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Michael Pollan on Vermont and the Challenges of Eating Well in the 21st Centurynew
He says Vermont is 30 years ahead of the food-production curve.
Seven Days |
Suzanne Podhaizer |
06-20-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
To Food Writer Amy Trubek, Vermont Tastes Like the Futurenew
Trubek's just-released book The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir is a shot across the bow of our old system of thought and commerce. But more fundamentally, it shows how a renewed appreciation of the magic of local flavor might just save our collective bacon.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Immigrant's Contract' Is as Gripping a Read as a Great Novelnew
A book-length poem about manual work -- and rather dryly titled -- is an unlikely page-turner, but Kinsey pulls it off by amassing arresting details.
Seven Days |
Amy Lilly |
04-28-2008 |
Poetry
Richard Heinberg Discusses a Post-Carbon Futurenew
Chances are, when you think about gasoline, it crosses your mind in an abstract way -- as if where it comes from and how much of it exists is someone else's problem. Thanks to peak oil expert Richard Heinberg, Americans' naive attitude toward fossil fuels may be changing.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
04-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dogged Pursuitsnew
A homeless Vermonter pens an autobiography to fund a Buddhist temple in Asia.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
02-29-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
James Sturm's Moving Picturesnew
The graphic novelist, like a film director, tells a story through images as much as words. And reading Sturm is a little like watching Alfred Hitchcock direct a Todd Solondz script -- he's got the eye-catching compositions of the auteur and the intense, painful curiosity of the squirm-inducing indie.
Seven Days |
Matt Frassica |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Kochalka Draws a Comic for Little Kidsnew
Cartoonist and self-proclaimed superstar James Kochalka draws a children's book about a goofy gray squirrell.
Seven Days |
Margot Harrison |
09-05-2007 |
Books
Remembering Grace Paleynew
If I have any nascent wisdom in my head, Grace, it's this: You were always much wiser and less foolish than you let on.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
09-05-2007 |
Books
