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 […]
Books & Poetry
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 […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Out Loud: A Memoir, Mark Morris Bares All
But the modern dance master is less than self-aware
“Whatever is in him,” the critic Joan Acocella wrote of Mark Morris in her 1993 biography, “out it comes. This goes for his dances — he creates with extraordinary ease […]
POETRY
Dogs of Truro
Selected by Katherine Hazzard
The first anonymous baying from those backlit hills petitions a single greeny-blue winter star. It silvers as I watch, tuning its sharpness. Deep January in the natural dark, and now […]
POETS
Joy Priest Finds Provincetown Rejuvenating
The FAWC fellow experiments with form and colleagues
Last spring, Joy Priest had some big decisions to make. The Kentucky native, who had recently completed her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of South Carolina, was accepted to […]
books
Joel Meyerowitz’s Provincetown Through a Local Lens
Photographs in search of a lost time
Eighty-one-year-old Joel Meyerowitz, éminence grise among Provincetown photographers, was in Manhattan in late October. The occasion was a narrated slide show and book signing hosted by Aperture, his publisher, […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising […]
DEAR INDIE
A Bitter Halloween Candy Tax
Family conflict over a shrinking stash
Dear Indie, I put a lot of effort into my Halloween trick-or-treating and came home with a major haul of candy. Way more than my older sisters, who are now […]
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A Classic Dysfunctional Family Memoir
Tales of resilience as holidays loom
Educated Tara Westover New York: Random House, 2018 Family dynamics can range from quirky to full-blown dysfunctional even at the best of times, but holidays have a way of putting […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Return of Henry Rios in Carved in Bone
Michael Nava’s gay mystery looks back in time
After a two-decade absence, author Michael Nava’s award-winning Henry Rios mystery series returns with its eighth installment, Carved in Bone. (This volume fits chronologically between the first and second books […]
