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SHORT SUBJECTS March 17, 2005 Casting couches The Martha's Vineyard Independent Film Festival is putting out a call for couches. Do you have a couch to lend for the weekend? Any shape or size will do. Festival couch collectors will pick-up on Friday, March 18 and return the furniture on Monday, March 21. In return for your weekend couch donation you will receive three free tickets to any film and three bags of popcorn. Interested couches (or their owners) should call Thomas Bena at 508-645-2705.
Susan Wilson and Robin Desta will be featured at the second of two Island fiction writers' coffeehouses sponsored by the Nathan Mayhew Seminars. The reading is this Friday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Fanny Blair Hall in Vineyard Haven. Susan Wilson is the author of five novels: “Beauty,” “Hawke's Cove,” “Cameo Lake,” “The Fortune-Teller's Daughter,” and “Summer Harbor.” She has just completed her sixth, “Dreamland.” Ms. Wilson lives in Oak Bluffs with her husband, David. She has two grown daughters, one dog, two cats, and a horse. Robin Desta is a native of Southern California, where “Cain & Able,” her novel in progress, is set. After a long association with Martha's Vineyard, both as vacationer and as year-round resident, she returned two years ago to work on her novel. Ms. Desta's other projects include a children's coloring book, produced in collaboration with illustrator Jeanette Vanderhoop, which will be available this summer. She lives in Oak Bluffs and is employed by the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah. The fiction writers' coffeehouse is supported by a grant from the Martha's Vineyard Cultural Council.Fiction Writers' Coffeehouse, Fri., March 18, 7:30 pm, Fanny Blair Hall, 45 N. William St., Vineyard Haven, on the Nathan Mayhew campus. $5 admission includes refreshments. Info: 508-696-9381.
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