Sleuthing on the Vineyard Makes for Good Book Sense

In her 30-year career, Jean Stone has written upwards of 24 novels, more than a third of which are set on the Vineyard. The reason, she said, goes back to the works of Agatha Christie.

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Kim Places Personality Over Authenticity in Korean American Cookbook

As Eric Kim blew out birthday candles in the Chilmark Community Center last Thursday, he wasn't just celebrating himself. The 31-year-old cookbook author and New York Times journalist had only one person to thank for this moment: his mother.

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Covid Monologues Finale Nears

The Island-wide Covid Monologues project holds its final community reading event Saturday on Zoom.

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Lifting Up the Legacy of Longfellow
Maia Coleman

This June Nicholas Basbanes published a definitive study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called Cross of Snow.

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She’ll Soon Have the Once in a Lifetime Thrill of Seeing Her First Novel in Print
Vineyard Gazette
Dorothy West will soon have the once in a life time thrill of seeing her first novel come out in print. The book was written at Oak Bluffs where Miss West occupies a cottage with her mother, and is to be published this spring by Houghton Mifflin. Its title, The Living Is Easy, came to her as she was describing the story to a friend of hers. At least from a first impression, the same phrase might be used to depict the personality of the author herself.
 
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Author, Historian Tony Horwitz Dies
Bill Eville

The West Tisbury author and historian Tony Horwitz died suddenly in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Mr. Horwitz was 60.

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The Long Arc of Social Change
Holly Pretsky

Activism is what inspires Mr. Raskin and what motivated Vineyard author Alexandra Styron to write a handbook for young people on protest and engagement.

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Looking Forward to the Next Chapter

Sisters-in-law Betsy Banks Epstein and Elinor Svenson, edited a book called Still Becoming: Conversations With People in Their Sixties.

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Yiddish, Jive and the Joy of Discovery
Landry Harlan

Island author and linguist Herbert Foster's new book Ghetto to Ghetto: Yiddish & Jive in Everyday Life.

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When Freedom Is Never Assured
Vivian Ewing

It’s hard to hang up on someone in a satisfying way with a cell phone. That’s why Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, has an old rotary phone at her house.

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