Books & Ideas
Percival Everett won the National Book Award for his novel James, a retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, perspective.
Nancy Aronie leads her writing workshops with a focus on kindness. Her latest book on the personal essay draws from the same place.
The bones of the whale are bleached down by the harbor where the water is clear and you can see the grains of sand and the eelgrass and the white shells.
On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.
During her long career at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum as its oral historian, Linsey Lee has interviewed over 1,000 Islanders, giving voice to their lives and stories.
Claudia Taylor’s voice echoed throughout the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Friday for her first public reading as the Island’s new poet laureate.
