Books

Two Star contributors make good — Nanci Lagarenne reads from her new novel, “Scape Ghost,” in Southampton, and Dianne Moritz lands in “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”

How did Bernie Madoff get away with it for so long? And who knew? These questions and others are what Richard Behar’s new book, “Madoff: The Final Word,” addresses.

East Hampton Library’s Authors Night will bring 100 writers to Herrick Park to sign and sell copies of their books, all in support of the library’s programs.

In her new novel of World War I Britain, Helen Simonson brings well-turned prose, well-drawn characters, a well-developed setting, and romance, romance, romance.

Alice McDermott, a top novelist, will visit Fridays at Five at the Hampton Library tomorrow with her latest, “Absolution,” about expat American women in Vietnam during the war.

One Saturday, two book talks: a tale of Dutch Nazi resistance from John Tepper Marlin at the East Hampton Library, and thoughts on all things Montauk from Bill Akin at the Montauk Library.

Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, is out with “The Rulebreaker,” a fascinating biography of Barbara Walters full of surprises even for dedicated followers of her career in TV news.

Unvarnished, unfiltered, and insidery, here are the Beatles on the eve of John Lennon’s assassination, with one heck of a Yoko Ono story to boot.

Poetry fans, take note: From Lucas Hunt in Bridgehampton to Leah Umansky and Joyce Jacobson in Sag Harbor to Bruce Whitacre in both places, readings abound.

Following her hit “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” Taffy Brodesser-Akner returns with a new exploration of family life, this one spurred by a patriarch’s kidnapping.

Audrey Flack, an art world iconoclast, died on Friday. Her memoir holds nothing back, from the boorish big boys to parsing who the real feminists were to knowing when she nailed a masterpiece.

Julie Satow’s book reminds us how Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller, Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, and Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel remade American fashion retailing.