The year 2020 promises to be an exciting one for Nora Corrigan. She completed her first novel, about a female oil worker on a rig in a North Dakota boomtown, […]
Books & Poetry
METAFICTION
In Trust Exercise, Choi Views Abuse Through a Literary Lens
The National Book Award winner will read at FAWC
“I have a preoccupation with locations and the landscape,” says Susan Choi, “almost to a fault.” She recalls her time as a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center […]
BOOK REVIEW
From Lust to Love and Cleanness, in Nine Chapters
Garth Greenwell’s new novel is 100 shades of gay
Garth Greenwell’s 2016 debut novel, What Belongs to You, which was on the long list for the National Book Award, is a story of love, lust, and loss, centered on […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Literature as a Journey of the Heart
Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
According to Jenn Shapland, the problem with biographies of authors is that they fix the author in time and place. Layering on the biographer’s understanding of the author’s body of […]
AT THE LIBRARY
A Woman Walks a Life-Changing Path
'Grandma Gatewood's Walk,' by Ben Montgomery
If you’ve ever chosen a title for your book group, you know how hard it is to find one that everyone enjoys. But that did happen in our Eastham group […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Books for School Vacation Reading
School librarians share their favorites
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, […]
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 […]
