10.29.2024 Around the Island Love on the Rock: Writing in harmony It’s 1990. George H.W. Bush is president. Maggie Murphy and David Browne are working in New York’s chaotic publishing industry. Summers in Manhattan are getting old. David’s friend at...
10.28.2018 Lifestyle Island Bookshelf: Turning the camera on herself It would seem that author Ariel Levy has conquered virtually every goal she ever set for herself, becoming an award winning writer and well-known author at New York and...
08.18.2018 Around the Island Finley’s Fiction helps launch ‘All Happy Families’ On August 11, a large group gathered at Finley’s Fiction to congratulate Island resident and author Jeanne McCulloch on the publication of her memoir, “All Happy Families,” recently published...
12.09.2016 Island Profiles Island profile: David Browne, choosing a profession between jockey and judge When David Browne panned Rod Stewart’s 1975 album, “Footloose and Fancy Free,” saving special derision for the first song, “Hot Legs,” he was a student at a New Jersey...
08.31.2015 Island Profiles Shelter Island profile: Tim Purtell, going green all the way The garden around Tim Purtell’s Shelter Island home is a hopping place. And that’s just the way he likes it. During the course of a couple of hours spent...