Welcome to the Nantucket Book Festival’s answer to social distancing. We call it At Home With Authors. We are visiting, via Zoom, the writers we had planned to feature at our 9th annual festival this summer. We also will check in with many of our author alums from previous years.

We promise you engaging conversation with great stories, opportunities for escape, and perspective-changing insights on this moment in history. Please join us – from our homes, to their homes, to your homes.

At Home With Authors™

At a time like this, we need voices like these. The Nantucket Book Foundation & Festival presents memorable conversations and time-sensitive takeaways with our 2020 authors, and a growing roster of great writers.

Samantha Power: The Education of an Idealist

President-elect Biden will nominate Samantha Power to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development, calling her a “world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity.” We spoke with Ambassador Power about her journey, which began as a child reading books in the basement of a Dublin pub.

Sarah Broom: The Yellow House

Sarah Broom’s memoir, The Yellow House, winner of the 2019 National Book Award, is Nantucket’s choice for this year’s One Book One Island. In our At Home With Authors conversation, Broom reveals how her mother instilled the power of words and how she got her nickname The Recorder.

The Cocuzzos Of San Donato (No, They're Not Brothers)

A grueling bike trip to their ancestral village in southeast Italy strengthens the bond between this father and son; helps prepare the son to be a father; and reveals a profile in courage from World War Two. A conversation with Rob Cocuzzo, author of "The Road To San Donato."

What is Will Schwalbe Reading?

The author of "The End of Your Life Book Club" and "Books for Living" tells us, “I'm shut in, locked down, separated from humanity. Now is the perfect time to go back and finish …