Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
Finding a Place in the Natural World
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia, then lived in New York City as a young adult, and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer.
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Into the Wilderness
Could there be two people more different?
It’s 1964, and Rose Mayer is recently widowed, a Democrat, and Jewish. When she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter, who has never married and never voted for a Democrat, they clash before a surprising romance springs up, challenging all of the status quos. At age 64, they both must employ their humor, wit and compassion to even consider the other. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing season and voraciously opinionated population, Into the Wilderness is both a love story and a testament to the surprising flexibility of the human heart.
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Deborah Lee Luskin
Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, garden, keep bees, and raise daughters. Luskin has been an editorial columnist, radio commentator, pen-for-hire, and blogger. Her first novel, Into the Wilderness, won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities to gifted elementary writers, college students, new adult readers, life-long learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She holds a PhD in English Literature and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their dog, usually a cat, and a variable number of chickens.
Living In Place
You Can Get Here From There . . .
You can get here from there, but it’s not easy.Jonathan and Leslie arrived from the West Coast on Christmas Day, riding the tail end of unusual shirtsleeve weather, which certainly made for easy driving, listening to an audio book the way down on dry pavement and...
The Year’s Midnight
Tis the year’s midnight, and I’ve been reading John Donne to light my way in the pale squibs of light during the seven brief hours of these short days. Without snow, those daylight hours are drab, dun; life is shrunk,/Dead and enterr’d. Poetry is to my soul what...
Sense of Place in the Novel; Guest Post by Suzanne d’Corsey
Today's Guest Post is by Suzanne d'Corsey, friend, neighbor, and author of the debut novel, The Bonnie Road (ThunderPoint Publishing), a novel where setting informs plot, character and action. The Winter Solstice is fast approaching. As the silver sun runs its brief...
