Books

Mel Brooks delivers what his title promises, exclamation point and all — an unedited account of a life that must have been fun to live, but can be a chore to read about.

Meet the Authors Night, a new monthly series from the Springs Historical Society and the Springs Library, brings Randye Lordon, known for her Sydney Sloane mysteries, to Ashawagh Hall on March 16 at 6 p.m.

In “Going There,” her memoir, Katie Couric spares no one, least of all herself, in coming clean on a 40-year career in on-air news reporting. 

The Shelter Island Library is offering a chance for poets to win some recognition and $1,000.

All the ethical quandaries of a Henry James novel transposed to Gardiner’s Island? Read on.

A new one from our man in Springs.

Let’s talk politics.

In “Too Famous,” Michael Wolff’s compendium and rogues’ gallery, is it the sleaze of his subjects or his smug knowingness that’s grating?

Based on a “nightmare scenario” that woke Hillary Clinton up in the middle of the night when she was secretary of state, “State of Terror” tells an “all too timely” story.

A stream-of-consciousness tribute from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

What we have here is Carl Bernstein’s sincere, often heartwarming love letter about his earliest years in the print-era journalism that seduced him at age 16.

Nancy Goldstone’s “In the Shadow of the Empress” focuses on four extraordinary Habsburg women: Maria Theresa and three of her daughters, one of them Marie Antoinette, during one of the most unstable periods in European history.