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Doug Rose has logged more than a quarter-million miles on America’s highways, yet he’s never driven a car. The Brooklyn native has worked countless jobs in more than a dozen states, but he hasn’t had a permanent address since 1972. Rose has raised tens of thousands of dollars on behalf of orphaned children in Mexico, homeless people in Massachusetts and famine victims in Africa over the last 30 years. Yet the 56-year-old Vermonter has never had a bank account or credit card and, right now, probably has less than $500 to his name.... Read more

Cresting the hill into Middlebury on Route 30, it’s easy to overlook the nondescript wooden building perched beside the college’s pristine golf-course putting green. Unbeknownst to most local residents, that unassuming structure houses one of the country’s most respected literary magazines.... Read more

Water covers the streets of a nearly abandoned Manhattan. A couple huddles in their home under government quarantine after catching the plague from a stray cat. A weekend warrior desperately maintains his pristine lawn in the midst of a new suburban wilderness. A writer wonders how long he would survive doomsday holed up in Wal-Mart, “my one-stop-shopping ecosystem.”... Read more

In the age of the Internet, what does it mean for a publication to be “local”? Sometimes it’s hard to say. On May 25, Garrett Heaney sent a message to his email list announcing a new online journal called Wishtank: “I have been working on a project with my tribe from the Northeast Kingdom for some time,” he wrote.... Read more

Elephants in "fluffy pink tutus and jeweled headbands" dance around a circus ring, trumpeting to "odd harmonies" and accompanied by 50 ballerinas. It sounds a bit like a drug-assisted hallucination, but it's actually the premise of Ballet of the Elephants, the latest picture book authored by Leda Schubert of Plainfield. Amazingly enough, the book is nonfiction. The Circus Polka, choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Igor Stravinsky, had its premiere in 1942 at John Ringling North's Greatest Show on Earth.... Read more

Irish poet Greg Delanty racked up some miles alongside environmental writer Bill McKibben last weekend on a five-day trek to call attention to the most pressing environmental issue of the day. "Everybody seems to be against global warming. Can you hear them honking?" he said mid-march on Sunday from the side of Route 7. Delanty called back later to read the message from a sign he wished he'd written: "The best time to stop global warming was 20 years ago; the second best is now."... Read more

It had to happen eventually: Someone has created a literary award for those online scribes known as bloggers. On April 3, self-publishing website Lulu.com will award the world's first Blooker Prizes. The name is both a play on the prestigious Booker Prize and a nod to the new medium of "blooks" -- books based on blogs or websites.

Lulu has chosen finalists in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and comics. Winners in each category will net $1000, and the author of the best blook will pocket another grand.... Read more

Mighty Mouse -- that's the cartoon character on Beau Friedlander's black T-shirt. Friedlander is the marketing director at Chelsea Green, a small book-publishing company based in White River Junction. "This is what all small press people should wear," he quips one snowy March morning. In a publishing market dominated by giant multinational media conglomerates, Chelsea Green does resemble a kind of diminutive rodent. The company employs just 16 people full-time -- 13 of them at its HQ, three more at a warehouse in Brattleboro.... Read more

Internet, blogosphere, podcasting - what's next?... Read more

You never know when -- or in what language -- the next issue of 05401 will emerge. "My ambition had been three or four per year," Burlington architect Mannie Lionni says of his "irregularly published" 'zine, which turns 10 this month. Instead, he's averaged one per year over the decade.... Read more