October 14-17, 2021

Books presented at the 2021 festival from over 60 authors will cover a range of topics: rebellious women and feminist cowboys, homelessness, former presidents, immigration, political upheaval, Banksy, aging, writers and lovers, fake accounts, literary history Mississippi, New York, New Mexico, hurricanes, and pandemics.

And so many with books that were adapted to film. "Endless Love," "Waking the Dead," "The Sweet Hereafter," "Affliction," "Household Saints," "Admission"...and more!

A few highlights to look forward to:

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand will present "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, "his sequel to T"he Metaphysical Club. "He will be in conversation with National Book Critics Circle award-winner Michael Gorra.

Biographer and journalist Jonathan Alter in conversation with Vermont author Megan Mayhew Bergman, discussing his book "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life."

Pulitzer Prize finalist Russell Banks will discuss his new book "Foregone," a searing novel about memory, abandonment and betrayal. He will be in an event with award-winning novelist Scott Spencer and his newest novel "An Ocean Without a Shore."

Pulitzer Prize-winner Vijay Seshadri reading with Vermont poet Kerrin McCadden.

A panel, "Why Black Books Matter," featuring the author of Well-Read Black Girl and founder of the festival of the same name, Glory Edim, author and 2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow W. Ralph Eubanks, and 2021 Guggenheim fellow and author of numerous books, Farah Jasmine Griffin and led by by Jason Broughton, Director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) at the Library of Congress.

For a complete program, schedule, and registration links. https://emamo.com/event/brattleboro-literary-festival.

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