Books & Ideas
Dennis Lehane took a piece of Boston history, the stuff of legend in the city’s neighborhoods for nearly 90 years, and has written it as an epic no
SIDE EFFECTS: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial. By Alison Bass. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 260 pages. $24.95.
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil — all antidepressants frequently prescribed for adolescents — have their downsides as well as their upsides. In this book, Alison Bass, formerly the Boston Globe’s mental health reporter and a longtime seasonal resident of Edgartown, tells stories of how their downsides have frequently been kept from those to whom the antidepressants are being given.
Vineyard Dance Classes
Vineyard Dance will begin fall classes on Monday, Sept. 29, at the Nathan Mayhew Seminars campus on North William street in Vineyard Haven.
Classes for adults and teens are offered in ballet, modern dance/modern jazz, and floor barre. Children may enroll in creative movement, modern dance, and ballet.
For details, call instructor Kathy Joyce Costanza at 508-693-2257.
Over the next several weeks, the Vineyard Haven Public Library will be showing and discussing Eyes on the Prize, the seven-part PBS documentary series that tells the story of the civil rights movement through news clips and interviews from the time it took place.
There will be several guest speakers. On the first evening Sheldon and Lucy Durr Hackney will be here.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
The Sting Is On
On Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m., the Vineyard Haven library will present The Sting. This move features two of our favorite actors: Robert Redford and Paul Newman. When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con (an ultimate sting) on the mob boss.