Here on the Island, for many living is an art form and here artists abound.
Vineyard Bookshelf
2024
July 4, 2024
The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan, Mariner Books 2024, 304 pages, $30.
Michael Callahan’s new novel The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard opens in 2018 and introduces Kit O’Neill, a junior producer on a failing Manhattan TV show, who’s trying to put a brave face on the enormous tragedy that’s struck her life: her beloved grandmother Nan has died.
June 27, 2024
Great-grand-daughter of a Vineyard whaling captain, daughter of a West Tisbury poet and a New Jersey educator renowned for his Island linoleum block prints, longtime West Tisbury bed and breakfast proprietor, mystery book writer and writing teacher, Cynthia Riggs has now written not only of her Vineyard years but of much more.
2022
December 22, 2022
It's been 402 years since English religious pilgrims settled in Plymouth at the native Wampanoag town of Patuxet.
June 23, 2022
At the beginning of Elisa Speranza’s fiction debut The Italian Prisoner, young Rose Marino is poised on the brink of committing a daring social act.
May 9, 2022
As Nancy Slonim Aronie, founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop (and author of Writing from the Heart), writes in her new book Memoir as Medicine, everyone has stories inside them.
April 28, 2022
As Julia Spiro’s new novel Full opens, her main character, Ava Maloney, is about to reach a crisis point.
