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By ALEX HANSON

When this summer’s Bookstock literary festival was canceled, organizers were already looking ahead to next year.So it comes as no surprise that the Upper Valley’s biggest literary event is back on the calendar for 2025. The festival is scheduled for...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — Last year, the organizers of Bookstock, the literary festival begun here in 2009, set out a lofty aim.“Our goal,” they wrote in a funding application to the Woodstock Economic Development Commission, “is to make Bookstock one of the most...

By ALEX HANSON

By his own account, Ken Cadow was a reluctant student.His father had been a teacher, but went to work at IBM to earn enough to raise a family. Cadow grew up mostly in Rhode Island.“I learned a lot of stuff with my dad in the shop,” Cadow said in a...

By ALEX HANSON

It seems an odd lapse that the newspaper that coined the term “Upper Valley” has never published a word about a writer known as the Upper Valley Girl.If I have to offer an explanation, it’s that newspapers don’t often write about other newspapers, and...

By ALEX HANSON

The world of books is nearly as vast as humanity itself. It’s too big to fit into a three-day literary festival.But Bookstock, the annual festival opening Friday in Woodstock, is making an effort. While the organizers have always tried to include a...

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH STRAFFORD — For four days, Bruce MacPhail sat at a table in an open garage bay and talked with people as they walked by with boxes, bags and armloads of his books.He had put out a call last week for people to stop by and select from his shelves...

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH STRAFFORD — A collection of books is a big impediment to moving.When Bruce MacPhail moved to Massachusetts, in 2000, he left most of his collection in South Strafford. It’s still there, around 17,000 volumes.Now in his 80s and having sold the...

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH STRAFFORD — A collection of books is a big impediment to moving.When Bruce MacPhail moved to Massachusetts, in 2000, he left most of his collection in South Strafford. It’s still there, around 17,000 volumes.Now in his 80s and having sold the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — Barnes & Noble is coming back to the Upper Valley.More than five years after Barnes & Noble College closed the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, the national bookstore chain will open a new shop along the busy Route 12A commercial strip...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Hanover has never been a town known as a destination for nightlife, but an ambitious project now underway in the basement of the former Dartmouth Bookstore on South Main Street may change that.Hanover developer Jay Campion is building a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — A new chapter is in the works at the Norwich Bookstore.Founders Penny McConnel and Liza Bernard, who have owned and run the independent bookstore for nearly 27 years, are selling their business to a Seattle couple who will take over next...

By SARAH EARLE

On a visit to Brandeis University Press a few months ago, Doug Tifft, former production coordinator for University Press of New England, made a heart-warming discovery: The entire UPNE archive was on display in the new director’s office and all up and...

By ALEX HANSON

Stories don’t always follow an easy trajectory from beginning to middle to end. Life doubles back on itself and what might look like a conclusion turns out to be just another plot point.Here’s an example: In October 2016, Jeff Sharlet was in a small...

By EMMAJEAN HOLLEY

The world may have lost a future lawyer the day Peter Orner, then studying to become a criminal defense attorney at Northeastern University, first tuned out his professor’s lecture and worked on some creative writing instead. But the world also gained...

By Kevin O’Connor

After a long day at the office, some people lose themselves in a good book. The late editor Maxwell Perkins — the man who discovered such talents as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe — had to find solace elsewhere.In his case, the...