The evolution of Music on Martha’s Vineyard
Photo by Peter Simon
“Music on Martha’s Vineyard” by Tom Dresser and Jerold Muskin, copyright 2014 from The History Press, Charleston, SC. Paperback, 188 pages....
Introducing ‘Islanders Read the Classics’
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined,” Toni Morrison wrote in her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, Beloved. The Martha’s Vineyard Times and The Martha’s...
Islanders Read the Classics: Two veteran racial explorers join forces
Starting Thursday, March 3, one of the many literary experts on the Island will speak each month about a classic work of their choosing...
John Crelan presents ‘A Connecticut Yankee’ at Islanders Read
Mark Twain’s classic American novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” will be discussed by Island resident John Crelan at the Oak Bluffs...
‘Islanders Read the Classics’ explores Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’
Oak Bluffs resident Holly St. John Bergon will discuss one of poet Sylvia Plath’s major collections, “Ariel,” on Wednesday, May 18, at 5:30 p.m....
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
‘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...
