The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival will launch a live Summer Series this summer. Held both down-Island and up-Island, and outdoors, the Summer Series will feature 20 of the country’s leading authors speaking over three days. The Series kicks off on Thursday, August 5 with Nobel prize winner, Daniel Kahneman interviewed by biographer and historian Walter Isaacson at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven. Friday, August 6 at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum features thought-provoking panels on race, feminism, politics and journalism. Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, the Summer Series moves up-island to the grounds of the Chilmark Community Center in Chilmark for author talks throughout each day.

All events will be ticketed in advance and ticket sales will include the purchase of the book.

The authors and books:

Mark Bittman - Animal, Vegetable, Junk
Vernon Burton & Armand Derfner - Justice Deferred: Race & the Supreme Court
Danielle Dreilinger - The Secret History of Home Economics
Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker
Adam Jentleson - Kill Swithch: The Making of the Modern Senate
Sadeqa Johnson - Yellow Wife
John B. Judis - The Politics of Our Time
Sebastian Junger - Freedom
Daniel Kahneman - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Cecilia Kang - An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
Senator Amy Klobuchar - Anti Trust: Taking on Monopoly Power
Elizabeth Kolbert - Under a White Sky
Andrew Marantz - Antisocial
Heather McGhee - The Sum of Us
Louis Menand - The Free World
Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby
Deesha Philyaw - The Secret Lives of the Church Ladies
Patricia Sullivan - Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
Brandon Taylor - Filthy Animals
Simon Winchester - Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Each event will be live-streamed so that those without tickets or who are uncomfortable attending in person can participate, and live-streamed events will be free.