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Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
How a Small Library in Vermont Became a Symbol of Resistance for Canada
DERBY LINE, Vt.—The stately, stone-and-stained-glass library in this tiny border town in the rolling hills of Vermont plays a pivotal role in Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny's forthcoming novel. In the book, a shadowy cabal has hatched a plot to tap Canada's vast resources by making it the 51st state. Penny's beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache meets with a U.S. contact at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, trying to foil the plan.
NBC News
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Canadian author Louise Penny announces U.S. boycott amid 'unprovoked trade war'
Celebrated Canadian author Louise Penny announced Friday that she will be boycotting the U.S. due to President Donald Trump's plan to put tariffs on all goods from Canada. In a statement posted to her official Facebook account, the murder mystery novelist said she does not feel she can enter the U.S. "until that economic sword, that could throw hundreds of thousands of Canadians (as well as Americans) into poverty, is removed completely." "There are, of course, other things the American president is doing that make visiting the USA unpalatable," she wrote in the post. "Oh, dear. It is so painful to say that." Penny also announced that she will no longer do in-person events in the U.S., ending a 20-year stint of touring the country. The creator of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels was planning a launch event for the 20th installation of the series, "The Black Wolf," at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., but will now be hosting it in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre on Oct. 28. "Please understand this decision is not meant to punish Americans," she wrote in her statement. "This is about standing shoulder-to-shoulder with my fellow Canadians." The author said she hopes Americans will still attend her Canadian events, where they "will be welcomed with open arms." Penny is best known for her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, which was turned into the 2022 Amazon Prime miniseries "Three Pines." The eight-episode series featured British-American actor Alfred Molina as Gamache, a charismatic and talented inspector solving crimes in Quebec. The author also co-wrote the 2021 political mystery thriller "State of Terror" with Hillary Clinton. The book kicks off with a new U.S. president choosing a political enemy as secretary of state and avalanches into a series of terrorist attacks from political adversaries that the administration must address.
