Books & Ideas
There will be a book talk and poetry reading with architect John DaSilva and poet GennaRose Nethercot on Saturday, Sept. 30.
Music journalist Holly Gleason's new book contains 27 essays written by women about a female country singer who changed their lives.
Cong. Gerry Studds, the subject of Mark Robert Schneider’s tough and smart new biography, is remembered now in offhand conversation for a scandal.
Actor John Sibi-Okumu will host a poetry reading at the Vineyard Haven Library on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.
There will be a book release party on Saturday, Sept. 16 for Emma Young’s new poetry chapbook, Adamantine, held at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury...
Baseball inspires storytellers, as Jim Kaplan demonstrates in his engaging new book of essays Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on the...
Michael G. West said an 11th century Japanese Buddhist text provided him with a creative spark for his new novel.
In To the New Owners: A Martha’s Vineyard Memoir, author Madeline Blais reckons with the 2014 sale of her in-laws’ summer retreat.
MIT biochemist Dr. Kevin Esvelt will speak about genetic editing on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre.
In John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, the author describes what he sees as a society hooked on...
When he was 10 author Amor Towles put a note in a bottle that read something like “if this makes it to China . . . please write back.”
With cheers, laughter and sighs, Billy Collins was welcomed back to Featherstone Center for the Arts Tuesday.
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There will be a book release party on Saturday, Sept. 16 for Emma Young’s new poetry chapbook, Adamantine, held at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury...
The Friends of West Tisbury Library annual book sale runs from July 28 to July 31.
Island libraries will kick off this year’s summer reading program with a free event on Saturday, July 1 at 11 a.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West...
