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The Upper Valley Food Co-op in White River Junction was abuzz last Tuesday, but the talk wasn’t about the rising cost of food. Will Allen of East Thetford’s Cedar Circle Farm was about to discuss his new book, The War on Bugs.

“Oh, that’s good,” a woman in the check-out line said to the cashier. “But does he spray things, or does he just talk?”

The answer, on both counts, is a resounding, “No.”... Read more

Sometimes, a little tough love is the best thing for a person’s heart. When cardiologist Dr. Phil Ades, a medical consultant for EatingWell, is counseling a patient at risk for heart disease, he might say something like this: “There’s a ton of stuff people can do to prevent heart disease. Do you want to do this now, before your heart attack, or do you wanna do it after?”... Read more

It does Barton poet Leland Kinsey no disservice to say that his latest volume of poetry is as gripping a read as a great novel. The 57-year-old’s sixth book, The Immigrant’s Contract, is actually a series of linked poems narrated by the immigrant of the title — a French-Canadian, never named, who was still a boy when his father moved the family to an unidentified northern Vermont town.... Read more

Tea and flashbacks?... Read more

Last year, food-related books by Vermont authors were hot: Think The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese by Jeff Roberts and Rowan Jacobsen's A Geography of Oysters, which garnered him a James Beard award nomination. Now a couple of local authors, whose books will appear in the next few weeks, are crossing their fingers for a similar reception.... Read more

Ah, China. Regrettable financier of U.S. debt. Mass producer of toxic cat food and lead-paint toys. Reviled by human-rights activists for its latest crackdown in Tibet. Criticized by athletes for failing to improve air quality prior to the Olympics.... Read more

Once, every suburban wife struggled alone with “the problem that has no name,” as Betty Friedan wrote in her pathbreaking 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. “As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured them to Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ‘Is this all?’”... Read more

So, your best friend’s a doctor, and ever since getting sued for malpractice he’s been cooking meth for a drug dealer who makes bestiality-themed pornos on the side. To remind the defrocked doc what’s really important in life, you and your other buddies bring him the ninja thowing stars you used to play with as kids. But one of those stars somehow ends up in the drug dealer’s forehead. Just another night out with the guys, right?... Read more

Elizabeth Orr is a strong woman. A stranger might not think that to look at her: Nearly 81 years of living have bent her already-petite frame, and constant pain in her legs — she refuses medication — has hobbled her walk. Her voice, with its vestigial English accent, is sweet and soft. But this is a woman who has worked long hours, seven days a week, for more than four decades in her aptly named Everyday Bookshop. She labored alone for many of those years, lugging heavy piles of newspapers, magazines and books. A friend calls her a “tough cookie” who never takes a day off.... Read more

Some banks offer free microwaves, iPods or checking to entice customers. The New England Federal Credit Union is taking a more highbrow approach: It created the Distinguished Vermont Writer Series, featuring the state’s “top fiction and nonfiction writers.” This Monday, March 17, at 5:30 p.m., Waitsfield author James Tabor will read from his book Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Mysterious and Controversial Disasters, accompanied by original images from the ill-fated 1967 expedition to Mt. McKinley.... Read more