Kate Feiffer
Travels to Myanmar
Queen Supayalat of Burma was said to have ordered the murder of more than 80 members of the royal family in order to ensure...
Around the Writers’ Table
It’s about to happen again — February on the Vineyard. While Vineyard winters aren’t what they used to be, the long nights of the...
Around the Writers’ Table: Writing resolutions for 2023
Along with the new year come the resolutions to do better, be better, and strive for better. Of course, not everyone is a resolution...
Around the Writers’ Table: Books for the holidays
It has long been my belief that every bookcase on the Vineyard should have at least one shelf dedicated to Island authors. If you...
Around the Writer’s Table
In a few days, Islanders Write will kick off. This MV Times–sponsored event brings together writers and publishing professionals (with ties to the Island)...
Around the Writer’s Table
The numbers are spiking. There’s too much lead in the water in Tisbury, too many cars on the Island, and yes, too much COVID....
On the shelf
Islanders Write brings together writers and publishing professionals with ties to the Vineyard to speak about various genres and aspects of writing and the...
Twists and turns
What happens on the Island stays on the Island. Except when what happens on the Island is a fictional story, rendered from the extraordinary...
Around the Writers’ Table: Writing about yourself
Last week, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, the principal and vice chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, gave a commencement address to...
Around the Writers’ Table
While the Taste of the Vineyard was going on in Edgartown, I was tasting tapas in London with several Vineyard friends. One of them...
Around the Writers’ Table
In 2019, roving grammar guru Ellen Jovin set up her grammar table at Islanders Write and greeted the grammar-minded on their way into the...
Around the Writers’ Table
Back in April, before we started sneezing and dusting the pollen off our cars, I wrote about the upcoming pitch panel at Islanders Write....
Around the Writers’ Table
Last Thursday morning I emailed Nancy Slonim Aronie and told her I wanted to interview her about processing grief through writing. Aronie is a...
Around the Writers’ Table
Is a Vineyard summer still a good time to catch up on your reading? It’s clear that the slow-dance summers of the Kodachrome era...
Get inspired
This summer’s Islanders Write will have more writing workshops on a wider range of topics than ever before. These breakout sessions will be focused...
Pitch perfect
I don’t know if the ability to shape and present a pitch should be considered an art form, but there is an artistry and...
Ghost, with, or and
Cole Brown was waiting out the pandemic in Australia when his friend Matt James, who had found fame and courted controversy on the 25th...
Island writers on writing
Jennifer Smith Turner’s debut novel, “Child Bride,” was published in April 2020. It’s generally not advised to launch a literary career a month into...
Island writers on writing
It began when she gave up. Her computer irretrievably and maliciously devoured the first 68 pages of a memoir she was working on, what...
On the shelf
I’ve heard a lot of people say that their reading habits have changed since the beginning of the pandemic some two years ago —...