Kate Feiffer
Erasing the Gerry-Mander
In 1812, the Boston Gazette published a cartoon of a mythical creature, drawn by Elkanah Tisdale, mocking a new voting district in the shape...
Islanders Write: Election season
Two members of my writer’s group have books coming out in the next few months. Nicole Galland’s novel “Boy” will be published in late...
Digging into the art, craft, and business of writing at Islanders Write
Songwriter John Forté, documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter, author and founder of the Black Doctors Consortium Dr. Ala Stanford, and media entrepreneur John Battelle will...
Islanders Write — It’s gametime!
The good news is that if you spent too much money at the fair, you can still afford to come to Islanders Write. The...
Islanders Write
I was sitting on the front porch of Edgartown Books making small talk and signing copies of my novel on the Sunday afternoon that...
Islanders Write
This summer’s Islanders Write will kick off on Sunday, August 18, at 7:30 pm, with a discussion about “Finding Truth in a Post-Truth Era.”...
Islanders Write
There was a shocking bit of publishing misinformation making the rounds a while back. It had to do with the number of books an...
Islanders Write: On pitch
Last week during a book talk at the Chilmark library, someone asked me how I found a publisher for my novel. It’s a question...
Islanders Write, two ways
We are changing the name of this column from Around the Writers’ Table to Islanders Write. We decided to do this for two reasons...
Around the Writers’ Table: ’Tis the season for book talks all over the Island
It’s speaking season on the Vineyard, and Island-connected authors are stepping out. Terri Potts-Chattaway, Mark Chester, Thomas and Joyce Dresser, Richard Lewis Taylor, and...
Around the Writers’ Table: Islanders Write workshops
We’re still putting the pieces together for this year’s Islanders Write, which will take place on Monday, August 19, at Featherstone Center for...
Bumpy road-trip
I hadn’t heard of a babymoon before reading Sidney Karger's delightfully engaging new novel, “The Bump,” but it’s an idea that makes a lot...
Around the Writers’ Table: The pitch panel returns to Islanders Write
Veteran journalist and author Loren Ghiglione said he wasn’t nervous when he stood in front of last summer’s Islanders Write pitch panel and talked...
Around the Writers’ Table: The cruise ship doctor
Dr. Gerry Yukevich was finishing up dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Boston when he cracked open his fortune cookie and read, “Soon will...
Around the Writers’ Table: Where to write?
Cafés have long been a makeshift office space for the writers we read. Hemingway famously penned most of “A Moveable Feast” in a Parisian...
Around the Writers’ Table: Poetry
Last week I had a discussion with MV Times publisher Charles Sennott about the challenges of writing a good lede. A lede is the...
Around the Writers’ Table: ‘One of a Kind’
She changed her name from Sarah to Sydney when she was 14 years old because she thought people would pay more attention to her...
Around the Writers’ Table
During the winter of 2014, Peter Oberfest, then publisher of The MV Times, called me into his office. He was interested in creating an...
Around the Writers’ Table: Workshops and readings
I was looking into the writing-related events that will be taking place on the Island during pinkletink season, and was surprised that a few...
Around the Writers’ Table: Winter writing
Writing tends to be a solitary endeavor, as does spending a winter on the Vineyard. Given these two situational happenstances, it’s not surprising that...