Maggie Shipstead was not yet 30 when she finished her first novel, Seating Arrangements. The story, as she described it in a recent interview, is...

Schedule of Panels - Edgartown Room 11:00 a.m.  History: Past and Present with Jill Lepore (Mansion of Happiness), Tony Horwitz (Midnight Rising),...

Best-selling author Adam Mansbach claims that he’s “really bad” at not working. He has spent a lifetime of summers at his family’s longtime home in...

There is a large group of literature in the American canon referred to as “coming of age.” Though Susan Choi will discuss her new book, My Education...

Someone once told me that writers are people who have failed at other careers. That’s not always true, but it is for me.

When Eric Asimov visits the Island for the book festival it will be his first time on the Vineyard in 30 years. His last trip was marked by trying...

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