JILL BIALOSKY: Poet, Editor, Novelist
"I really became a poet by happenstance," Jill Bialosky said. "I remember when I was younger, I was sort of embarrassed to tell people I was a poet." The general perception of a poet, she feared, was of "somebody who sort of sat in their room and daydreamed."

A Hamptons 'Homage'
Last summer, film crews spent hundreds of hours documenting the multifaceted characteristics that make up life on the stretch of eastern Long Island from Southampton to Montauk. Now, the finished documentary, "The Hamptons," will air on ABC-TV in two two-hour installments on Sunday and Monday nights.

A Filmmaker Returns Home
Bruce Nalepinski has been in the film business for more than 30 years, from assistant directing his first major film, "Kramer vs. Kramer," which won eight Academy Awards in 1978, to directing more than 100 documentaries, including his latest work in progress, "La Pelota," which is about a Cuban baseball team.

Critics

Opinion: Moving Photos, Bland Paintings
The inaugural show at Upstairs at Glenn Horowitz, a redesigned gallery space at the Newtown Lane, East Hampton, bookseller, spills over into the ground floor of the building, as it must: about 60 works by 45 artists are included.

'Talley's Folly': Is Still Fresh
Lanford Wilson's "Talley's Folly" may be 23 years old, but it doesn't show its age. In this old-fashioned romance set in a small town in Missouri in 1944, Matt Friedman and Sally Talley struggle to establish a relationship by overcoming fears and prejudices that are somewhat specific to that time and place.