Around the bookstore
One day, just a moment ago, it was Memorial Day weekend. It seemed God turned on the spigot and people flowed into the streets all over the Vineyard.
Then I blinked, it was the Fourth...
Around the Bookstore
In June 2020, I became manager and book buyer for Edgartown Books. The immediate challenge was to fill the shelves as we reopened post-COVID, and to make sense of the needs of the bookstore...
Around the Bookstore: The classics are worth revisiting
In the morning and evening, when I go upstairs to turn on or off the lights at the bookstore, I pass our Classics section, which has probably doubled since I became the book buyer...
Around the Bookstore: Oprah’s 100th pick
For many authors, being named as the choice for Oprah’s Book Club is akin to winning an Oscar — a validation, a burst of authorial stardust in a literary career. Since 1996, Oprah has...
Around the Bookstore: Author Maggie O’Farrell
A few days ago, a customer asked for a recommendation for a good historical novel; I asked whether she had read either “Hamnet” or “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell. She had read neither,...
Around the Bookstore: ‘Pineapple Street’
Debuting this week at No. 5 on the NY Times Hardcover Best Seller list is “Pineapple Street,” a first-time book by Jenny Jackson, set amongst the uber-wealthy in Brooklyn Heights (I know, Brooklyn Heights?).
It...