Earlier this year, the Gazette interviewed Geraldine Brooks as her latest novel, Caleb’s Crossing, was about to be released:

We often want to know more about our favorite authors. After investing hundreds of pages of time in their created worlds, we feel entitled to know more about what they’re like in our shared world. It’s the root of our fascination with Hemingway’s boxing and Faulkner’s drinking, with Greene’s Catholicism and Salinger’s reclusiveness. We want to know more, but rarely do we get our wish. However, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who shares more than Andre Dubus 3rd.

“I really did spend my entire childhood watching television,” says Alexandra Styron, a claim that stands in stark contrast to her endlessly expansive vocabulary and carefully crafted storytelling.

Young poets have until Monday at 5 p.m. to enter their poems in the Elisa Brickner Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Elisa Brickner Fund of the Chilmark Free Public Library. The contest was created to foster the love of poetry, and provides cash prizes of $200 and $100. To be eligible, poets must be entering grades 6 - 12 in the fall. Winners will be asked to read their poems on Monday, August 15, at 5:30 p.m.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission decided on Thursday night to review the proposed roundabout at the intersection of Barnes and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Roads as a development of regional impact (DRI). The roundabout has been the subject of a decade of planning and a bid set is to go out this fall. But commission members said on Thursday night the project plainly has regional impact, citing potential impacts on the intersections at either end of Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.

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