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Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026

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Finding Kerouac: A West Coast literary sojourn

Even before I booked my plane ticket to San Francisco, Calif. (on a whim), I had wanted to go to City Lights Bookstore — the old gathering place of the Beats, where Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was first published in 1954, and where generations of Beatniks continued to pay homage. 


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“Envoys” and the tale of an Independent Scholar

I share a wall with Joey Disorbo ’25.5, so I know first-hand that those inconceivable work hours stats cited on his film’s informational poster board are true: 2000 hours, split across a thin crew. I know it from the many weekends I’ve seen him holed up in his room editing; I know it from the ...


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Makes Ya Feel: Art for the cold

Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!


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A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state

Being from Vermont means going to your town bar on Blackout Wednesday with everyone who graduated from your high school in the last 20 years, never learning world geography in your public school education and hiding from your second-grade teacher at the farmers market. It’s about knowing where to ...


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Being a writer at the Monastery

I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department gave a workshop on The Buddhist Unconscious: Yogācāra Buddhism and How It Illuminates Bias. 


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A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”

“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...


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Be not afeard, the room is full of teeth (and flute)

Full of noise it was, when on the night of Nov. 5 in Robison Hall, the avante-garde acapella octet Roomful of Teeth and composer, poet and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull joined forces to produce 75 minutes of utterly remarkable and deeply moving experimental soundscapes. I have heard nothing like it — ...




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