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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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
Free Writing Circle
4th Annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle to Benefit Library Writing to the Light As the calendar winds down and the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun, come join me for the Fourth Annual Writing Circle, Writing to the Light. The workshop will take place...
My Vermont Life Continues in Pandemic
“I imagine your life in VT going along in much the same way as usual...Tim going to work, Deb going to the writing studio and plenty of hiking, etc., on the off hours,” reads Cousin Becky’s recent email. What she imagines is, in fact, what is real. Not Much Has...
Signs of the Times: Black Lives Matter
I’ve recently raised signs at the entrance to my house to show all passersby that I stand in solidarity with Black Americans. I’m simultaneously standing with white Americans who, like me, have been awakened to how our national, financial, housing, cultural and...
