Oral Histories: Of Living Links
Sometimes it's hard, while driving down Montauk Highway or sitting on the beach at Accabonac Harbor, to imagine East Hampton as it was when fishing families used the sugar pine from fish boxes to add on to their houses and wagon wheels rolled along the roads instead of four-wheel-drives.

Oriental Elegance: For Cold Nights
For some people, New Year's Eve offers one last shot at holiday glitz - a chance to deck yourself out in the best of 1997 and ignore all your resolutions until the next workday.

FREDERICK R. KARL: Biographer And Historian
Surely few can speak with more authority on the art and science of biography than Frederick Karl, who has taken on no fewer than four daunting giants of literature - Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, George Eliot, and Franz Kafka - and is well aware of the pitfalls in trying to capture the ephemeral smoke of personality.

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