Wendy Hudson of Bookworks to Run Mitchell’s Book Corner

ReMain, a part of The Schmidt Family Foundation and owner of the building that is home to Mitchell’s Book Corner, has announced the formation of Nantucket Book Partners by Wendy Hudson, the owner of Bookworks on Broad Street for 18 years. and one of the organizers of Nantucket’s first Book Festival this June 15th-17th. Nantucket [...]

LuLu Powers Book Signing

The LuLu Powers Book Signing and Wine Tasting took place on Friday, July 2, 2010 at currentVintage. The book is FOOD to FLOWERS. Lulu worked in the kitchen of Sarah Leah Chase on Nantucket, and has since been the chef for Madonna, Will Smith, Arianna Huffington and Bill Clinton in LA. Photos by Gene Mahon. [...]

Cary Hazlegrove Nantucket Book Signing

Cary Hazlegrove Book Signing Party took place on Friday, April 9, 2010 at the Chicken Box with light fare by Chef Carl Keller, and music by Earth Got the Blues and The Shingles. Click on any photo to see more photos from this event or an archive of past events.

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Nantucket Arts News

NEW BOOK BY CARY HAZLEGROVE Cary Hazlegrove’s newest book of photographs, entitled “Nantucket”, goes on sale this week at island bookstores, and March 25th nationally. Cary has photographed the island for more than thirty years, and this book represents the best 150 of the past ten years paired with quotes from well known islanders. JANE [...]

Books: “A Line in the Sand”

“A Line in the Sand: The Battle to Integrate Nantucket Public Schools, 1825-1847″ by Barbara Ann White, published by Spinner Publications. From the press release: A monumental struggle for equal rights took place on Nantucket in the 1840s. On one side were the island’s black community and their abolitionist allies joined by renowned anti-slavery advocates [...]

Catching Up with Nancy Thayer on Nantucket

Each week in this column, we’ll catch up with one of our island luminaries to see what they’ve been up to. Sometimes it will be in their own words, sometimes mine. This week the words come from island author Nancy Thayer. Hi Gene, This June my nineteenth novel, “Summer House”, will come out on Ballantine, [...]

Catching Up with Elin Hilderbrand

Each week in this column, we’ll catch up with one of our island luminaries to see what they’ve been up to. Sometimes it will be in their own words, sometimes mine. This week the words belong to Elin Hilderbrand, who wrote me in early March. Hi Gene – Chip and I and the kids are [...]

Best Selling Books on Nantucket 2008

BOOKWORKS BEST SELLING NANTUCKET BOOKS OF 2008: “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nat Philbrick “Summer Affair” by Elin Hilderbrand “Barefoot” by Elin Hilderbrand “America According to Connor Gifford” by Connor Gifford “Nantucket: Portrait of an American Town” by Mary Haft “Nantucket Ghosts” by Blue Balliett “Prince of Nantucket” by Jan Goldstein “Beach House” [...]

Nantucket Arts

Nat Philbrick’s book “In the Heart of the Sea”, the National Book Award winner about the Nantucket whaling ship Essex, will be made into a major motion picture directed by Edward Zwick, according to Variety. Zwick has written, directed, and/or produced “thirtysomething”, “Once and Again”, “Legends of the Fall”, “Glory”, “About Last Night…”, “The Last [...]