Kate Feiffer
King Lear and you
Dear Internet,
Thank you for reminding us that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” during the plague of 1606. It’s helpful to think about Shakespeare when we...
Write on
An expanded Islanders Write will be returning to Featherstone Center for the Arts on Sunday, August 2, and Monday, August 3. For the first...
Secret lives of secret sellers
While working for the CIA as a mid-level agent, Aldrich Ames once left a briefcase with confidential material in it on a New York...
Gifts for the bibliophile in your life
The holiday shopping season quickly accelerates into high gear, and with Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast fading in the rearview mirror, we suggest...
When a giraffe is born without spots
Imagine a giraffe born spotless. Kate Hancock and illustrator Lane Gregory do just that in their new collaboration for young readers, “Spotless” (Stanza Lone...
Honing your craft
Islanders Write is expanding the number of writing workshops offered at the day-long event scheduled for Monday, August 12, at Featherstone Center for the...
The perfect pitch
A few weeks before my first picture book was published, I was meeting with my editor at Simon & Schuster to talk about my...
A writer on writing
For the past two summers, novelist LaShonda Katrice Barnett has offered a series of 30-minute one-on-one feedback sessions at Islanders Write, The MV Times’...
Writing the lyric essay with Christopher Citro
During a recent interview with poet Christopher Citro, I admitted that the term “lyric essay” was new to me.
“It’s new to a lot...
Reads from the Rock
Daylight hours are dwindling, and the frigid temps that taunt us are planning their move. Remember the ice moat surrounding your house last winter?...
Defining Jewish identity
Last Wednesday, three swastikas were found spray-painted outside the office of a Jewish psychology professor at Columbia’s Teachers College in New York City. In...
Breaking the case
I hope someone is compiling a list of books that are set on Martha’s Vineyard. If you happen to be that person, please add...
‘Dear Edvard’
For the past several years, my friend Richard Michelson — an awardwinning poet, children’s book author, art dealer, and Oak Bluffs summer resident —...
‘Islanders Write’ writers tell us what they think
Before “Islanders Write,” we like to ask the writers taking part a few random questions about writing and the writing life. We’re sharing some...
Books don’t have to end
I spent much of last winter contemplating the hundreds of books on the bookshelves in my mother’s foyer. I flipped through them, read passages,...
‘Islanders Write’ turns five
This year marks the fifth anniversary for “Islanders Write,” the writers’ festival that brings writers, editors, and others immersed in the writing life together...
What did you do this winter?
Peter Pinkletink hopped out of Aquinnah this winter. The irrepressibly charming Peter, whose stories are being told in a series of online books for...
Reading Nancy
Three frames of a comic strip with three words repeated three times inspired two men to spend some 30 years writing a book. The...