Summer reads and author talks
Everyone wants a great summer beach read, or porch, or Adirondack chair read. And on vacation you can even read a book to let...
Author talk with Kate Hancock
Join author Kate Hancock for a book talk at the Oak Bluffs library on Friday, June 21, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Hancock’s picture...
‘To the New Owners’ is a meditation on gratitude
Pulitzer prizewinning writer Madeleine Blais has spent years examining the art of memoir writing with her journalism students at UMass Amherst, so it’s no...
‘The Believers,’ Alfred Woollacott’s saga of hope and belief
Alfred Woollacott III has a huge family tree bristling with pioneer personalities and risk takers. The longtime Island resident has been busy for the...
Books in Review: Fiction, politics, and sweet Island reads
Six of Time magazine’s top 10 nonfiction books in 2017 had to do with the 2016 presidential race, the state of our national and...
‘To the New Owners’ recalls the bygone era of the Vineyard summer shack
Pulitzer prizewinning writer Madeleine Blais has spent years examining the art of memoir writing with her journalism students at UMass Amherst, so it’s no...
John Hough Jr. will discuss Styron’s ‘The Confessions of Nat Turner’
William Styron wrote “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” a 1967 Pulitzer prizewinning novel. —Courtesy William Styron Archives
On Aug. 21, 1831, African American slave Nat...
‘Islanders Write’ returns with another full day of writing related events
'Islanders Write' is the annual writing conference, sponsored by the MV Times and MV Arts & Ideas magazine, about the art, craft and business...
Jennifer Tseng’s new life and work
Jennifer Tseng doesn’t live here anymore.
The celebrated West Tisbury poet and novelist, and a mainstay in the circulation department of the West Tisbury library...
John Sundman illuminates the world of sci-fi
“People deprecate science fiction as being a literature of ideas. But so is ‘Moby Dick,’” said John Sundman, who will lead the next Islanders...
