Interviews and Conversations

DORSET — Caren Simpson McVicker’s life has, at times, had an Odyssey-type feel to it until her family inherited her late mother-in-law’s home in Dorset, and moved there in 2014.Having...

Bookshelf bulge and inspiration. These are both things that I suspect are happening to many of us on the Vineyard this summer. This past weekend alone, large crowds turned out...

This fall, prolific children’s author Deborah Hopkinson launches five new books, including an Elizabethan spy novel, a fractured “Cinderella” tale, a picture book inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human...

Susi Q’s “Evening with an Author” event was another sold-out hit for local readers and writers eager to mingle with like-minded literary enthusiasts and hear from best-selling novelist Lisa See...

A special supplement for Islanders Write is tucked into this issue of The MV Times. In this week’s Writers’ Table, I’d like to elaborate just a bit more on the...

By Patricia J. Murphy | As a college chemistry professor, Elaine Vickers knows all about matter. And, as a children’s author, she writes books that she hopes will matter to...

In middle grade novel Jawbreaker by debut author Christina Wyman, aspiring journalist Maximillia “Max” Audrina Plink’s Class II malocclusion—and the splayed teeth, severe overbite, misaligned jaw, and painful costly treatments...

Mexico’s flood of vicious drug-related killings since the early 2000s has coarsened and corroded the country’s social fabric. But there may be one way in which the nation’s response to...

By Patricia J. Murphy | Mélina Mangal is a library media specialist at a Minnesota district K–5 elementary school in Minneapolis, an author of fiction and nonfiction books for young...

The 24th edition of Kenya’s Nairobi International Book Fair this year adds a ‘Rights Café’ for business meetings and networking. Sol Kids publisher Polycarp Otieno participates in a ‘book talk’...