Where writers with ties to Martha’s Vineyard discuss the art, craft, and business of writing
Islanders Write Survey
Last year the MV Times and Islanders Write launched Islanders Write Immersives, a series of online writing workshops. We will again offer online writing classes this winter. Are you interested in taking a class in memoir writing? Children’s book writing? Poetry? Essay and opinion writing? Food writing? Travel writing? Editing and Revisions? Plot and…
Islanders Write panelists talk all things writing
The festival was hosted by Featherstone Center for the Arts in the Francine Kelly Gallery. —Dena Porter Robin Bonnist pitched her memoir to publishing professionals about her landing an airplane at Martha’s Vineyard airport while her…
Awardwinning journalists talk local roots at Islanders Write
Islanders Write panel on Wednesday night to kick off the two-day event. —Eamon Colbert Nathaniel Horwitz, Jane Mayer, and Charles Sennott. —Eamon Colbert Nathaniel Horwitz. —Eamon Colbert Nathaniel Horwitz, Jane Mayer, and Charles Sennott. —Eamon Colbert…
Saying goodbye to a comic laureate
I’ve been thinking about two very funny writers, both gone now. Marty Nadler, who carved out a widely-appreciated spot for himself as the Vineyard’s standup comic in residence — in…
Around the Bookstore: Autumn comes in like a lion
Summer 2026 has been one of the busiest and buzziest of the six summers I’ve been managing Edgartown Books — a season stuffed with wonderfully written books that have grabbed…
The woman beyond the look
For nearly two decades, the world has watched Michelle Obama, both adoringly and critically. And the reverence didn’t waver on Sunday, August 23, when hundreds gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard…
Eugene Robinson’s ‘Personal History of America’
Eugene Robinson (right) interviewed by Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the Chilmark Community Center as part of the MV Author Series Eugene Robinson (right) interviewed by Henry Louis Gates Jr.…
BOOKS
A Pig in Edgartown –
Katherine Sherbrooke’s newest novel asks a big question
Richard North Patterson’s ‘Tripwires’
An Island respite
A voice from the Polish resistance
From public defender to children’s book author
ESSAYS and articles
‘Why am I still here?’
Maggie Haberman on ‘Regime Change’
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