Books

    Thomas McGonigle’s “Going to Patchogue” is a slight, basically plotless metafictional novel of loss, identity, and discovery. First published by the Dalkey...

Poetry in Patchogue
    As the book review on this page indicates, Patchogue contains multitudes.
    On one hand, as an example, the...

    It’s what we have in common that makes us unique. 
    I’m not sure whether that’s a quote from somebody or my own thoughts as I read...

Lit Lunch in Sag
    Call it a Sag Harbor affair: Two authors and residents feted at a lunch held in Ted Conklin’s American Hotel, the linchpin...

    What was the greatest discovery of all time?
    Attributed to Albert Einstein, it was compound interest. To the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, it...

    In his new book depicting aspects of the history of the Town of Southampton, David Goddard, a sociologist, sets out to trace the “colonization of the village” in...

Caution: This review is probably not for the sexually faint of heart. “Seven Days in Rio,” the second novel by Francis Levy, is the story of Kenny Cantor, a C.P.A. from New York City who has come to...

Poets Against Hunger
    As part of a nationwide effort to alleviate hunger, Mark Doty of Springs, a winner of a National Book Award, will head up a group of poets...

Poets Against Hunger
    As part of a nationwide effort to alleviate hunger, Mark Doty of Springs, a winner of a National Book Award, will head up a group...