We asked Outer Cape school librarians for some good reads for next week’s school vacation. Their recommendations span preschool to grade nine — and there are some grown-ups will like, […]
Books & Poetry
EXPEDITIONS
From Truro to Antarctica With Poet-Naturalist Liz Bradfield
Join her for a guided walk in wintry Hatches Harbor
Longtime Truro resident Elizabeth Bradfield travels in far-reaching yet compatible directions. She’s a published poet, photographer, environmentalist, and associate professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Open Secrets of Rachel Maddow’s Success
In her biography of Rachel Maddow (published last month by Thomas Dunne Books), Lisa Rogak writes that the top-rated MSNBC anchor, who has a home in Provincetown with her partner, […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Circe: A Modern Retelling
Madeline Miller’s novel is both familiar and subversive
As a child my love of reading sent me into a wide range of book-related obsessions that oscillated from the common to the esoteric. The first and most enduring of […]
BOOK REVIEW
Family Papers and the History of Sephardic Jews
The story of one family spans the globe and a catastrophic century
Two tragedies have shaped the fortunes of the family of Sa’adi Besalel Ashkenazi a-Levi, an iconoclast and printer: the catastrophic fire in Salonica in 1917 and the Nazi Holocaust. Readers […]
READINGS
Esther Lin Circles the Globe in Her Poetry
The work center fellow writes of destinations within and far away
Esther Lin’s poetry is full of places — Alexandria, Va.; Mozambique; Madagascar; Hong Kong; Cape Town — all locations from her family’s complex legacy of migration. “It’s like I have […]
READINGS
You Can’t Take the Texas out of Callie Collins
A FAWC fellow re-imagines history from outsiders’ point of view
Callie Collins is that rare species of writer who exudes sheer enjoyment in her work. As she sits on the sunny porch of the Canteen in Provincetown, describing the projects […]
BOOK REVIEW
Larry Kramer’s Queer Epic of Love and Death
Taking in The American People, Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact
There is much sex but little love in the first volume of writer and activist Larry Kramer’s The American People, subtitled Search for My Heart. It contains episodes of imagined […]
WRITING LIFE
Cynthia Martin’s Romance With Provincetown
How the Outer Cape inspired her book, Tidal Flats
The opening scene of Cynthia Newberry Martin’s first published novel, Tidal Flats, takes place in Provincetown, where the two main characters, Cass and Ethan, begin their love story. Martin, who […]
POETRY
The Poems of Oliver de la Paz Question Our Perceptions
He’ll share his vision at a Provincetown reading
“In the labyrinth,” writes Oliver de la Paz, “there is constantly the problem of proximity: how what is understood about where you stand depends on where you stand.” A poet […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Why Being ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough
And how we can be better
How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi One World/Penguin Random House: 2019 “There is no neutrality in racism.” That point is central to Ibram X. Kendi’s proposals in […]
BOOK REVIEW
‘The Hidden World of the Fox’ Is a Guide to Coexistence
Author Adele Brand prefers facts to unfounded fears
I enjoyed watching an adorable mother fox and kits last summer in my South Wellfleet neighborhood. I considered myself privileged to witness their antics and also to catch glimpses of […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Armchair Travel With Murder
Reading that takes you to sunny European climes
I read to escape. Not that I have the kind of life one would want to escape — I have a great job and I live in one of the […]
READINGS
Kevin Fitchett Writes of Loss and the Hope of Redemption
From off the grid to Provincetown, a FAWC fellow embraces nature By Susannah Elisabeth Fulcher
The dazzling sunshine is deceptive: not many would find Provincetown’s windswept Race Point Beach inviting on this freezing mid-December day. Kevin Fitchett ambles up the beach and offers a winsome […]
ROAD POET
Metter
This is for my second hometown I said this poem is for my second hometown Metter, Ga. It’s OK if you have to google it The first time I went […]
