Kate Feiffer
Around the Writers’ Table
“How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome.” That’s the cover story of the most recent Harvard Business Review. The picture on the cover is a photograph...
Around the Writers’ Table
While trying to decide on what to write for this week’s Writer’s Table, I received an email from Walker Ryan, a professional skateboarder and...
Announcing the 5-Minute Book Bite
By Mathew Tombers’ count, there are over 200 books written by Vineyard-connected authors currently on the shelves of Edgartown Books. Tombers is the manager...
Secrets then and now
We’ve gotten so accustomed to broadcasting the details of our lives across various social media platforms that it’s getting hard to recall that our...
Around the Writers’ Table
I recently received an email from a writer I know asking me to subscribe to his Substack. Then a second request came from another...
Around the Writers’ Table: National Poetry Month on M.V.
Since 1996, April has been designated National Poetry Month. While there are a few readings and workshops afoot, I’m a bit surprised there isn’t...
Teaching children history through song
Last week former educator and current New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman tweeted that he is sending a package of books to Florida Gov. Ron...
Around the Writers’ Table
The first Islanders Write was held at the Grange Hall on a sweltering August day in 2014. From the beginning we wanted to make...
Around the Writers’ Table
After you’ve filled up on fried dough, taken a spin on the Ferris wheel, and marveled at the fireworks, The MV Times invites you...
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...