BRATTLEBORO – I don’t usually write book reviews. Novels, plays, fantasies, autobiographies, full-length Shakespearean satires: the whole lot. But I’m moved to tell my fellow Gazette readers about Howard Norman’s new novel, “Come to the Window” (W.W. Norton, 2024). It’s a wonderful story, a book to own and read over[Read More…]

CRAFTSBURY – Rob Mermin, the founder of Circus Smirkus in Greensboro, very literally fulfilled many a young person’s dreams of running away to the circus at the age of 19. He delightfully  chronicles his very daring and often hilarious adventures in a new book, “Circle of Sawdust, A Circus Memoir[Read More…]