Books

Mark Matousek will elucidate “Lessons From an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life” on Friday at The Church in Sag Harbor.

John Sargent’s memoir reveals an informed guide to modern publishing, and then some: from heading up Macmillan to fighting off Amazon.

Philip Schultz and Grace Schulman talk poets and poetry at Duck Creek, while A.M. Homes and Carl Bernstein hash out the political moment.

Paul Harding longlisted, Richard Brockman as survivor, Fran Castan and Canio Pavone read.

The 30 stories in Francis Levy’s “The Kafka Studies Department” add a lightly absurdist take on human psychology to the landscape of literary brevity.

“Gays on Broadway” is not a comprehensive study. What it is is an idiosyncratic and arch amalgam of history, criticism, and juicy gossip.

Coogan’s, a late, lamented neighborhood bar in Washington Heights, is the subject of a new book whose author will be at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton to talk about it with the saloon’s former owner.

Helen Schulman’s new novel is a #MeToo tale driven by one question: “How could one woman do this to another woman?”

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.