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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

John Updike fans won’t want to miss this conversation between James Schiff, “Selected Letters of John Updike,” and Updike’s son. Michael. Zoom registration bit.ly/BrattLitMay

Images of James Schiff author of Selected Letters of John Updike and Michael Updike. Zoom scheduled for Wednesday, May 13, 5 pm ET.

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Pulitzer Prize author Tracy Kidder dies at 80. See 2023 Brattleboro Literary Festival video with him in conversation with Robbie Gamble, youtu.be/KW2B58szuTs?si

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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Rough Sleepers– Tracy Kidder & Robbie Gamble

YouTube video by Brattleboro Community TV

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The father of xcountry skiing in the USA died last night at the age of 97. His book “The Cross-Country Ski Book,” sold 500,000 copies. My group of xcountry skiers made a tribute to him in Feb 2024 on the trails of Mt Sainte Anne in Quebec. RIP John.....https://youtu.be/pC0gqIFA96o

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Returning from Val David Quebec after 4 days of x-country skiing with friends on our 42nd year of doing this. We made it a diplomatic peace mission and apology to Canada by wearing these badges on the trails. All well received by our Canadian friends.

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Wonderful talk by @heathercoxrichardson on American immigration on the anniversary today of the opening of Ellis Island and various immigration laws passed during the 19th century. www.youtube.com/live/TttfD5j...

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Politics Chat, January 1, 2026

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hey #literaryfiction readers. Check out the videos coming up on this youtube playlist.

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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

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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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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

They are going after big donor Dems like George Soros

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/10/2025

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.

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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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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@vtbookfest.bsky.social encourages book buyers when they shop online to use your website. The 24th Literary Festival takes off Oct17-19

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We hope to see you there!

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

An impressive lineup of #poets & #poetry on Saturday 10/18. See schedule brattleborolitfest.org/wp-content/u...

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The lies from the Bondi-Patel hydra will surprise even Zeus.

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We're delighted to welcome #nonfiction writer, @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social, this fall. His latest book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award & the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize. #Challenger #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

So delighted to welcome #AlbertAbonado to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival this year! His latest poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents, was published in 2024. It was selected by Mahogany L. Browne for the National Poetry Series. All events are FREE and open to the public. #poetry #Vermont

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@brattlebororetreat.bsky.social presents An Evening with @garygulman.bsky.social to benefit the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival at the Latchis Theater on Sept. 10, @ 7pm. Join us for a screening of #TheGreatDepresh at #Brattleboro's #LatchisTheatre. Please find the link in our bio to purchase tickets.

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Join us in October to welcome @adacalhoun.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, Crush, was published in February. Isaac Fitzgerald writes, "⁣Crush marks Calhoun’s arrival as a novelist, and what an incredibly explosive arrival it is.” #AdaCalhoun #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival

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La Repubblica @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Maltempo: tempesta di fulmini in Toscana, si allaga Venezia, a Roma decine di alberi caduti www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/2…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My friend Alfonso in Sorrento send me this photo today

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Dramatic end to the day. Fire on the slopes of Vesuvius lit by the setting sun. #Pompeii

A blazing orange billowing smoke-filled sky blowing over Vesuvius. Pompeii’s Porta Nocera in the foreground.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

AMERICA! The new and final episode of ‘Pompeii The New Dig’ airs tonight on PBS! It follows the progress of the excavation team and all the spectacular and poignant discoveries made in the last year. It’s a beautiful love letter to Pompeii. www.pbs.org/video/traile...

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WTVP Spots | Trailer | PPND | Pompeii: The New Dig; House of Treasures. | Season 2025

Join the final chapter of Pompeii's largest excavation in a generation.

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Have you seen who is coming to the 2025 @vtbookfest.bsky.social ? Authors here brattleborolitfest.org/authors/ including @benshattuck to whom @nytimes.com Maureen Dowd gave a shoutout on Aug 2-- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.

It's uncanny.

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This was predictable Kennedy Center sees ticket sales fall dramatically amid Trump intervention Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kennedy Center sees ticket sales fall dramatically amid Trump intervention

Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellations

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Jerry Carbone @jjcitaliano.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It was on my list last year and failed to make it there. Next time!! one of Rome’s best restaurants is rewriting a major food rule open.substack.com/pub/sluttisp...

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one of Rome’s best restaurants is rewriting a major food rule

an interview with trattoria pennestri

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