Martha's Vineyard Books & Ideas

The Expanding Palate of Food Writing

Louisa Hufstader | Thursday, August 12 2021 - 4:46pm

A sell-out crowd of more than 200 people took their seats at café-style tables at the museum talk about the Changing Story of American Home Cooking, sponsored by Cook the Vineyard, a Vineyard Gazette publication.

Cook the Vineyard

Exploring the Literature of Enigma

Philip Weinstein

The concept of law joins the three writers we will be exploring this fall—Dickens, Dostoevsky and Kafka—but our course is not really about legal institutions.

Free to Be You, Me and Reina Del Taco

Caroline Kaplan

Like many on the Island, Edgartown library director Lisa Sherman first saw Tim McNerney as just an affable UPS delivery guy. Then she heard about Reina Del Taco.

Vineyard Bookshelf: Deep Water Blues

Steve Donoghue

Deep Water Blues by Fred Waitzkin, Open Road, 143 pages, $17.99 .

Book Talk by Alan Dershowitz Draws Small Protest

Caroline Kaplan

A book talk on Wednesday by Alan Dershowitz at the West Tisbury Library drew a small group of protesters over Mr. Dershowitz’s links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Toni Morrison Taught on the Page and Off

Philip Weinstein

Some 30 years ago I was finishing my first book on Faulkner — a labor of love and of critical ambition.

Labyrinth Reading

Annette Sandrock will give a series of readings to celebrate the release of her first book of poetry, Labyrinth.