Excerpts from Palace Council, by the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, follow a young man through the fifties, as he establishes his name as a writer and works for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. There’s also a murder and his sister’s disappearance to drive the plot of this novel that’s sure to be seen on many a Vineyard beach this summer.

Stephen L. Carter

Is there a future for nude beaches on the Island?

Mike Seccombe

It’s the kind of thing you would never expect to happen twice.

Carolyn O'Daly

We’ve had house guests leave everything from a bottle of wine to a box of designer chocolates to a card as a thank-you.

Kate Feiffer

I’m not much of a gardener. Don’t know the practical difference between a shovel and a spade.

HJ Bernstein

The grass is greener in front of everyone else’s house.

Kate Feiffer

A gap in his knowledge of pre-Mayflower America led Tony Horwitz, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who lives in Vineyard Haven, to write a new history and travel book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.

Tony Horwitz

Okay, I admit it. I like stuff. I like having it. I like finding it.

Niki Patton

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