Martha's Vineyard Books & Ideas

The Expanding Palate of Food Writing

Louisa Hufstader | Thursday, August 12 2021 - 4:46pm

A sell-out crowd of more than 200 people took their seats at café-style tables at the museum talk about the Changing Story of American Home Cooking, sponsored by Cook the Vineyard, a Vineyard Gazette publication.

Cook the Vineyard

Vineyard Bookshelf: American Spirit, Speeches by David McCullough

Steve Donoghue

The new book from David McCullough, The American Spirit, is a collection of transcripts from speeches the author has given over the last 30 years.

Prize Winning Book and a Life Cut Short

Marjory Potts

In 2004, the novel Suite Francaise was awarded the Renaudot Prize, a glittering prize for fiction in France. This astounded the literary world because the author, Irene Nemirovsky, had been dead and mostly forgotten for over 60 years.

Going to the Heart of Cooking, Kitchen Tables of Ancient Kings

Heather Hamacek

James Beard award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan’s new cookbook, King Solomon’s Table, is filled with recipes as resplendent as those prepared for the fabled royalty.

Economists Dissect Trumponomics at Hebrew Center Opener

Alex Elvin

Three leading voices in U.S. policy and economics spoke optimistically about the prospects for the U.S. economy before a near-capacity crowd at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center last week.

Martha's Vineyard Book Festival Is Literary Feast of Creativity and Ideas

Chloe Reichel

Gender, race, politics and the environment are prominent themes in the seventh Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, which takes on August 5 and 6.

For Alexandra Fuller, Writing Requires Going to the Hard Places

Glynis Hart

Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, recently released her first novel, Quiet Until the Thaw. She will be speaking on Friday, July 7, at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.