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Charlie Esposito has nearly completed building a modular synthesizer that he can play music on. —Dena Porter Charlie Esposito illustrates his stories and cooking recipes. —Dena Porter Charlie builds his modular synthesizer in his spare time. —Dena Porter Charlie plays many…
The funniest serious poet around
Billy Collins Featherstone Center for the Arts and Pathways Arts will present Billy Collins, reading his poems, at 6 pm on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Featherstone’s Francine Kelly Gallery. Collins will also be teaching a one-day poetry workshop on Friday, Sept. 25. This year marks the…
Art show: Susan Bienen Johnson
Catch the art show “Stone Walls, Graves, Fishing Shack Windows” by Susan Bienen Johnson at the West Tisbury library. A closing reception will be held Tuesday, Sept. 29, 12 to 2:30 pm. “This group of paintings celebrates lichen-covered landscapes and fishing shack windows, all of…
An Island respite
Val Leone, the protagonist in Maria Anne Lenihan’s new novel, “Morning Glory Girl,” has a bit of a problem. Actually, it’s a career-threatening one, so it weighs heavily on her life. After six years on the partner track at a New York corporate law firm, Val is under a lot of…
What it means to have your greatness recognized: ‘Late Fame’
“Late Fame,” by Kent Jones, playing at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, Sept. 25, is a quiet story adapted from an Arthur Schnitzler novella. It follows the aging Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), a former poet working a humdrum Post Office job in New York City, who is “rediscovered”…