Books

Christopher Byrne considers the life and work of Terrence McNally, a giant of the American theater.

Go to this year’s Pushcart anthology to hear what’s not being talked about in polite company, to read work that would likely be banned in Florida, to be transported.

Eileen Myles, whose poems race headlong down the page, is nothing if not consistent, and prolific. Myles’s latest collection is “a Working Life.”

Public spaces needn’t be immutable, privatized, or useless. They can be claimed for the community good. Professor Setha Low takes a fresh look.

Paul McCartney’s “1964: Eyes of the Storm” collects more than 200 photographs he took with a Pentax camera late in 1963 and early in 1964.

Colson Whitehead reads from his new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” Thursday night in Sag Harbor, while Bill Boggs is in East Hampton Saturday with “Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns.”

Authors Night, Saturday, Aug. 12, Herrick Park, East Hampton. Be there.

A Philip Schultz poem in tribute to the East Hampton artists Connie Fox and William King.

Here is the Jackie Bouvier Kennedy you may not know — photog, columnist, gal about town.

Women’s increasing numbers in and influence over American journalism is explored in “Undaunted” by Brooke Kroeger, a veteran correspondent and professor.

For his new one, Colson Whitehead returns to Harlem, this time in the 1970s, and Ray Carney, who’s busier than ever with his furniture store and his stolen goods.

Carmela Ciuraru will talk to Katie Couric about “Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages” at Guild Hall on Monday night.