Books & Ideas
Justen Ahren of West Tisbury has been selected as the 2017-2019 Poet Laureate of Martha’s Vineyard.
Author and former West Tisbury librarian Jennifer Tseng returns to the Island on Saturday, March 25 to read from her new chapbook of poetry.
Edgartown summer resident James B. Conroy is one of two recipients of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
On Dec. 27, the father and son team of Brocks Callen (they share the same name) headed out to sea.
David R. Foster’s new book, A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard, weaves dynamic tales of geology, ecology, history...
As is my habit each year, I’ve collected a group of maritime-themed books for land locked or winter bound mariners who might enjoy reading over the...
Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking...
Sandy Pimentel was born into a family of immigrants, Italian and Scottish, and generosity is a theme that runs through her life and memoir. It also...
In his newest book, In the Country of the Blind, essayist and octogenarian Edward Hoagland turns to fiction.
Ward Just, as the old newspaper saying goes, has ink in his veins. In his new novel, The Eastern Shore, he turns his attention and his memory to the...
On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Speakeasy Series presents an evening with Peter D. Kramer to benefit the West Tisbury Library Foundation.
Philip Weinstein begins his series of lecture on William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! on Wednesday, Nov. 2.
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History & Geography of Herbal Medicine, has been awarded the national Nautilus Book Award.
The March installment of Tweed’s Reads reading group at West Tisbury library will take up the topic “the prison of group think.”
The West Tisbury Library has received a gift of books from the Vineyard’s sister island, the Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
