Excerpts from Palace Council, by the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, follow a young man through the fifties, as he establishes his name as a writer and works for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. There’s also a murder and his sister’s disappearance to drive the plot of this novel that’s sure to be seen on many a Vineyard beach this summer.
Stephen L. Carter
Is there a future for nude beaches on the Island?
Mike Seccombe
It’s the kind of thing you would never expect to happen twice.
Carolyn O'Daly
We’ve had house guests leave everything from a bottle of wine to a box of designer chocolates to a card as a thank-you.
Kate Feiffer
I’m not much of a gardener. Don’t know the practical difference between a shovel and a spade.
HJ Bernstein
The grass is greener in front of everyone else’s house.
Kate Feiffer
A gap in his knowledge of pre-Mayflower America led Tony Horwitz, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who lives in Vineyard Haven, to write a new history and travel book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.
Tony Horwitz
Okay, I admit it. I like stuff. I like having it. I like finding it.
Niki Patton