“Roy Kuhlman: Reluctant Modernist” is an informative read and a visual feast for graphic design aficionados or anyone who came of age reading Grove Press publications back in the day.
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A Presidential MaverickThe Church will host Bob Crawford, the author of a biography on John Quincy Adams, in conversation with John Avlon, plus a jazz concert by the Meg Okura Quintet, while applications are open for its Holiday Makers Market.
Gail Levin Talks Alice Baber at John JermainGail Levin will discuss her latest book, “Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy,” at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Friday at 4 p.m.
Who Is Hurt in the Green Revolution?In his Peter Matthiessen Center lecture as in his book, “The Elements of Power,” Nicolas Niarchos lays out the steep human cost of mining for the minerals crucial to the batteries that run our high-tech world.
Digging in the DirtThe Peter Matthiessen Center and Now Voyager magazine will host a book talk and a celebration of the magazine at the Southampton Arts Center on Tuesday.
Colson Whitehead on His Harlem TrilogyColson Whitehead, the multiple-award winning writer, held forth engagingly about his Harlem trilogy to a sold-out audience at Guild Hall.
Your Comic of ComicsFor his latest biography, David Margolick takes on the hugely influential comedian Sid Caesar, his highs and lows, his fame and his foibles.
And Now, Talkhouse: The Book“Bar,” a 400-page, limited-edition coffee-table book about the “wild ride of the Stephen Talkhouse” since 1987, is set for release on July 25.
Cool Poetry in the SummertimeDee Slavutin will read from her new collection of poems, “Suddenly Deciduous,” on Sunday, July 19, at 2:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library, and at the East Hampton Library on Aug. 12 at 6 p.m.
Book Markers: Architecture, Writers Conference, Silva’s LatestConference time at the college, Paul Goldberger and Michael Murphy on architecture, and Jamie Gangel interviews Daniel Silva about his new thriller.
Nature and History Collide in New Y.A. NovelDavid Cataletto’s passions for education, history, and the environment merge in “Kings of the Coast,” set on the East End in the 1600s and telling a tale of Indigenous tribes and Dutch and English settlers struggling to control the land.
When the Publisher Was KingGayle Feldman takes an exhilarating look back at the midcentury era when a book biz insider like Bennett Cerf could become a celebrity.
Phil Schultz Talks His New OnePhilip Schultz will read from his latest collection of poems, “Enormous Morning,” and discuss poetry with Grace Schulman at BookHampton in East Hampton on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Humming With TruthFrom fiction involving a woman running her family’s tea house to a memoir of recovering from a brain injury, “Fit Into Me” is nothing if not hybrid.
South Fork Poetry: ‘The Bard in Bardo. Where? Here.’Peter Matthiessen in the swimming pool.
Charm, Style, and ‘No Holds Barred’“Storyteller,” Jeffrey Banks’s memoir, contains numerous hails and some sad farewells to major and minor fashion figures and others who inspired or assisted him in his rise as an award-winning designer.
South Fork Poetry: ‘En Plein Air’Am I exploiting someone’s pain? And other sources of trepidation at the easel.
Paul McCartney, After the BeatlesIn “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” Paul McCartney is among the voices recounting the musician’s long effort to equal the success of his former band, the Beatles.
South Fork Poetry: ‘The Designer’A prayer for Jack Ceglic, artist, designer, and East Hamptoner, from Philip Schultz’s about-to-be-released collection, “Enormous Morning.”
South Fork Poetry: ‘Boudu Saved From Drowning’Chasing dreams — Californian, nighttime, in a Hamptons parking lot.
Doing the Time WarpFrom East Village sex workers to the primate plains of Lucy, humanity’s hirsute ancestor, looking for love and self-actualization with our man in time travel.
A Tidal TragedyIn Heather Aimee O’Neill’s debut novel, three sisters arrive for Thanksgiving at the family home on Peconic Bay, all of their complications in tow.
Who Is That With Roy Cohn? An author at work on a biography of Roy Cohn has a photo query for East Hamptoners of long tenure.
A Primer on SalterJeffrey Meyers, a literary biographer, had an epistolary friendship with James Salter of Bridgehampton for years, but his assessment maintains a certain distance.
Playwright Ponders Salter in BridgehamptonKeith Reddin will deliver an appreciation of James Salter on Friday at 5 p.m. at the Nathaniel Rogers House.
The Path HomeFrom Lance Richardson comes a hefty helping of biography on Peter Matthiessen, novelist, pioneering environmentalist, advocate for native peoples, bayman, Zen teacher, Sagaponacker.
South Fork Poetry: ‘Double Exposure’A philosopher and novelist on love and unneighborly war — in dreams.