Books & Ideas
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster begins with a phone call. So did Paul Karasik’s adaptation of the series.
Richard Michelson’s latest children’s book, Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, tells the story of how Passover became an annual celebration at the White House during President Obama’s administration.
Geraldine Brooks’ new memoir, Memorial Days, grew out of a tragedy and its aftermath.
A new addition to Circuit avenue, Books Among Friends, has opened to raise money for the Oak Bluffs Public Library.
America is a chameleon / Forever adapting, morphing / Caught between what it is / And what it yearns to be / “Isms” coexist with dogmas.
History is found everywhere on the Island. Christie Palmer Lowrance hopes her first published children’s book, The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story, documents an important part of that story.
