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Empty Spaces

One’s a picture book promoting kid wellness, another’s a book of line drawings of historical structures ripe for coloring.

Sep 6, 2018
Carole Stone and the cover of her latest collection, due out on Aug. 25 from Dos Madres Press. Veteran Poets Read New Work

Carole Stone and Virginia Walker take to the lectern at 6 tonight for an en plein air poetry series in Southampton.

Aug 16, 2018
The East Hampton Library’s Authors Night returns Saturday to a new location in Amagansett, and attending will be Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, who enjoyed a bit of fun with Christie Brinkley under the tent back in 2016. Mondo Book Party in an Amagansett Field

Authors Night has landed at the old Principi farm — you know, the controversial 555 address? So read on, book lovers . . .

Aug 9, 2018
Ken Auletta Public Frenemy

Forget “full-service” advertising, now the game is selling access to your day-to-day life and altering your behavior for profit.

Aug 2, 2018
Jules Feiffer Terror in Tinseltown

A dark graphic tale of revenge and recrimination, pinkos and private detectives in the Hollywood blacklist days of the early 1950s.

Jul 19, 2018
“Man in an Arctic Cap,” a Robert Giard photograph, shows Jonathan Silin in 1981. A Writer’s Fresh Look at Aging

Jonathan Silin explores the curiously in-between years of 60 to 80 at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor on Saturday.

Jul 12, 2018
Cristina Alger The Thrill of Chick Noir

The domestic detective appears to be having her moment, from the “girl” thrillers to the “wife” suspense novels. And now, the Hollywood-beckoning “The Banker’s Wife” by Cristina Alger of Quogue.

Jul 12, 2018
George Wallace leads off the Poetry Marathon at the Mulford Farm on July 8 at 5 p.m. A Tale of Two Series

It’s nonfiction on Thursdays at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, while the Poetry Marathon now meets on Sundays at the Mulford Farm.

Jul 5, 2018
Alice McDermott McDermott Leads Off Fridays at Five

It’s high time for another Fridays at Five series of author readings at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton — out of doors and with wine.

Jun 28, 2018
Robert Hilburn The Musician as Alchemist

While Robert Hilburn clearly sees almost all of Paul Simon’s oeuvre as works of staggering genius, it’s true his impact on popular and world music has been profound.

May 22, 2018
Books, Talks, Drinks: a Benefit

John Jermain’s One for the Books has cocktail parties with writers, artists, and a filmmaker at houses across Sag Harbor.

May 1, 2018
Chris Babu Riddle Me This

Brainteasers, questions of logic, tests of deductive reasoning face six teens foolish or desperate enough to enter the subterranean Initiation in Chris Babu’s debut novel for young adults.

Apr 26, 2018
Book Markers 04.19.18

Writers Speak wraps up, while Schultz and Schulman hit Canio's

Apr 19, 2018
Francis Levy Funereal Ins and Outs

To be buried or cremated, that is the question for one skirt-chasing, peep show-visiting, Bukowski-reading baby boomer.

Apr 19, 2018
The cover of Jeffrey Sussman’s latest book features an AP photo of Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale in their 1948 middleweight championship bout. Bad Boy Makes Good

Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale fought the fiercest trilogy of title bouts of the 20th century, matching an ex-con from the slums against an upstanding Midwesterner.

Apr 10, 2018
Meg Wolitzer Power Struggles

Read in our often bewildering #MeToo world, Meg Wolitzer’s “The Female Persuasion” is an almost prophetic tale of gender and power, shaped by a sustained inquiry into relationships.

Mar 27, 2018
Chris Knopf Boiled, but Not Too Hard

Chris Knopf’s latest mystery involves the clubbing death of a deep-undercover intelligence operative, black-jumpsuited ninja types, and the fine cabinetry and company of one Sam Acquillo.

Mar 20, 2018
Alafair Burke Mensch or Masher?

Alafair Burke’s “The Wife” asks a worrying question: If you suffer through a traumatic event, do you recover? Or do you just think you have recovered?

Mar 6, 2018
A.J. Jacobs Who’s Your Daddy?

A.J. Jacobs confirms the beguiling promise of ancestry-hunting: to construct a narrative for yourself that is more interesting than the one you’ve got.

Feb 27, 2018
Thomas Mira y Lopez The Dead Don’t Lie

How do you figure out what comes next after what gave your life meaning is gone?

Feb 20, 2018
A New Way to Polish and Publish

BookEnds — a workshop established by Susan Scarf Merrell and Meg Wolitzer of Stony Brook Southampton’s M.F.A. program in creative writing.

Jan 30, 2018
James Salter’s Character Sketches

“Don’t Save Anything” contains a number of James Salter pieces that are indispensable, many of them rescued from boxes stored in places reachable only with a ladder.

Jan 9, 2018
Anthony DeCurtis A Walk Through the Wild Side

The origin story of Lou Reed, from Long Island wiseass to victim of electroshock therapy to tutelage under the poet Delmore Schwartz.

Dec 26, 2017
South Fork Poetry: A Christmas Gift

By Bruce Buschel

Dec 20, 2017
The Year's 10 Best Books

Some nonfiction gems in an off year for fiction, when current events overshadow everything.

Dec 20, 2017
Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut's 'Complete Stories'

Boy, do we miss Kurt Vonnegut, that shambling, head down, creased-face man in the beat-up raincoat who loved the world, and was broken by the foolish people who were trampling it underfoot.

Dec 7, 2017
Harlem at the Holidays

T.E. McMorrow will sign copies of “The Nutcracker in Harlem,” his new picture book, at two Books of Wonder locations in Manhattan on Sunday.

Nov 30, 2017
Jennet Conant High Achiever

A brilliant chemist, a president of Harvard, a leader of the Manhattan Project, and a top Cold War diplomat. Meet James B. Conant.

Nov 30, 2017
Simon Van Booy Time Bandits

Temporal slippage, a birthmark, and visions of a David ("Cloud Atlas") Mitchell adventure for young readers.

Nov 22, 2017
Colin Harrison Obsession in the City

Social observation, city atmosphere, and a highly sexual, white-collar hero: Colin Harrison is back with another New York noir.

Nov 16, 2017