Books & Ideas

Rose Styron’s Vineyard Winter of Content

Sara Brown

Come May for the past two years, a pair of ducks have come to nest on Rose Styron’s lush lawn overlooking the outer Vineyard Haven harbor. “They eat...

1:02 pm, July 5, 2012
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At Writers Institute, Community Is the Theme

Tara Keegan

Writers are everywhere, often hiding in plain sight. They’re under umbrellas in Oregon. They sit in the sweltering Georgia sun. They live across...

2:30 pm, July 2, 2012
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A Poem for Richard Lee, 1933-2012

Fan Ogilvie

Because I could not stop for death — He kindly stopped for me — from Emily Dickinson #712

8:00 am, July 1, 2012
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Ellen Weiss Book Talk

Visionary academic Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, needed a visionary architect to design the...

2:00 pm, June 28, 2012
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Paul Magid Receives Spur Award

Vineyarders have come so far east that they’ve broken free of mainland America, but one West Tisbury resident is the man to go to for a...

12:45 pm, June 28, 2012
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The Chappy Ferry: A 527-Foot Trip With Miles of History

Excerpted from The Chappy Ferry Book: Back and Forth Between Two Worlds, 527 Feet Apart, by Tom Dunlop, with photographs by Alison Shaw and a short...

12:30 pm, June 28, 2012
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In the Shadow of Cottagers' Corner

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s biography of Oak Bluffs writer Dorothy West might never have been launched but for a startling revelation that upended the...

4:15 pm, June 26, 2012
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Penguin Paperbacks Return as Art

For those who love reading, the Penguin paperback imprint holds a special place. After all, the sight of that little Antarctic dweller set against an...

6:45 pm, June 22, 2012
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Fall from Grace Explained

A prominent New England patriarch has died violently, exposing a nest of dark family secrets. That’s the plot of Richard North Patterson’s recently...