Steve Donoghue

Vineyard Bookshelf: Hobo Diaries

Holly Nadler’s feel-good memoir The Hobo Diaries: Down and Out on Martha’s Vineyard” is a bright and sunny reading experience, but it starts with a straightforward horror-story scenario.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Wampanoag Art for the Ages

It's been 402 years since English religious pilgrims settled in Plymouth at the native Wampanoag town of Patuxet.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: I Wouldn't Do That if I Were Me

I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me is a collection of short misadventures experienced by Jason Gay and his wife Bessie and their two sons, Jesse and his younger brother Jojo.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: My Shenandoah

Douglas Cabral, at the beginning of his new book My Shenandoah, freely admits that he is not an unbiased biographer of Vineyard sailing captain Robert Douglas.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Funny Business

Michael Hill's new biography, Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald, is a funny, genial book, much like its subject.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: The Italian Prisoner

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.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Memoir as Medicine

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.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Full

As Julia Spiro’s new novel Full opens, her main character, Ava Maloney, is about to reach a crisis point.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Confessions of an Immigrant Boy Pittsburgh 1920

Blood Pudding by Ivan Cox is framed as a long-lost memoir of its narrator, Tadeusz Malinowski.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Covid Monologues MV

Covid Monologues MV is the brainchild of Moira Convey Silva and Jennifer L. Knight, who have curated a wide selection of written responses to the pandemic.

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