Past Events

  • Saturday, September 27 at 11:00 am

    Enjoy timeless tales and new adventures with your little ones.  Wondering what we'll read? Each week, we'll choose a new picture book, a classic, or a staff favorite. We might even take audience requests!

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  • Thursday, September 25 at 7:00 pm

    Explore Apples of Uncommon Character with renowned food writer Rowan Jacobsen.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, and American Terroir. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Outside, Mother Jones, Orion, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Food Writing collections. Whether visiting endangered oystermen in Louisiana or cacao-gathering tribes in the Bolivian Amazon,...

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  • Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00 pm

    Author and VPR Commentator Bill Schubart joins us to talk about his new novel, Photographic Memory, and will explore with Phoenix guests how "a sense of place" imbues literature and memory.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Schubart is the author of two collections of short stories and two novels. He is a regular commentator on Public Radio and has spent most of his life founding and leading businesses, including Philo Records, and also serving a variety of nonprofits. He lives in Northern Vermont with his wife, Kate, and divides his time between harvesting wood and stone from nearby woods, writing fiction and commentary,...

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  • Monday, September 22 at (All day)

    Celebrate Bilbo’s birthday and your love of The Hobbit with us. Need another reason to celebrate? The third film in The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies comes out in theaters from Warner Bros. Pictures on December 17th.

    On Twitter, use #hobbitday to follow the...

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  • Saturday, September 20 at 11:00 am

    Enjoy timeless tales and new adventures with your little ones.  Wondering what we'll read? Each week, we'll choose a new picture book, a classic, or a staff favorite. We might even take audience requests!

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  • Friday, September 19 at (All day)

    Check the Burlington Book Festival website for more information!

  • Wednesday, September 17 at 7:00 pm

    Join us in welcoming Sean Mulcahy for a reading and discussion of his debut novel Slip Sliding Away.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A product of the rip-roaring 1990s, Sean Mulcahy was born and raised in Northern New Jersey. After eighteen years in the Garden State, he went on to attend the University of Vermont, where he graduated with a B.A. in History. Inspired by the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Mulcahy seeks to tell a truthful story without the constraints of fact driven non-fiction.

    ABOUT THE BOOK:  Recession. Unemployment. Student loan debt. Moving back home. This is...

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  • Saturday, September 13 at 7:00 pm

    Join Ben Hewitt to celebrate the release of Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting Off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ben Hewitt is the author of Saved, The Town That Food Saved, Making Supper Safe, and articles for magazines such as Bicycling, Discover, Gourmet, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, Yankee, Taproot, and many others. He and his family live in a self-built, solar-powered house in Cabot, Vermont, and...

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  • Saturday, September 13 at 11:00 am

    Enjoy timeless tales and new adventures with your little ones.  Wondering what we'll read? Each week, we'll choose a new picture book, a classic, or a staff favorite. We might even take audience requests!

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  • Thursday, September 11 at 7:00 pm

    Join Garret Keizer for a discussion of Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Garret Keizer is the author of Privacy and The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want. A contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and a former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written for Lapham’s Quarterly, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications. He lives in Vermont.

    ABOUT THE BOOK:
    Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned...

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