Books

The East Hampton Historical Society's Poetry Marathon, held at the Mulford Farm on James Lane in the village, returns Sunday to continue a roughly 25-year tradition, with wine, comestibles, and signings.

In a booze-soaked Montauk share house one summer, the housemates were grouped into three categories, “the girls, the finance guys, and the gays.” At 27, John Glynn didn't fit into any of them. “Out East” is his story of coming out and growing up.

Chris Pavone’s follow-up thriller plays a fast-paced game, with more twists than you can get your head around, expressive writing about Paris, and a most modern woman, an ex-C.I.A. agent who wants a family life.

Renting to the rich for the summer that old family house with the great views? In order to send your kid to college, or simply afford it here? Judy Blundell's first novel for adults explores the way we live now on the East End.

From "Millennial," a new collection by an East Hampton poet.

In his new novel, “Assassin of Shadows,” Lawrence Goldstone offers an alternative theory to the events of the McKinley assassination.

Jeffrey Sussman has dug up an all-star roster of low-life scum for our reading pleasure, but at least they had some style.

From “Hamptons,” a new poetry collection by Lucas Hunt, who will read from it at the Amagansett Library on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Thomas Harris, the undisputed king of memorable grotesquerie, returns with a murderous albino pornographer, sex trafficker, torturer, and organ harvester in his long-awaited new thriller.

“What better way to kick off the season than baseball and architecture?” asks Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic, who will do just that when he talks about his new book on Sunday at 5 p.m. at BookHampton.

An appraisal of Winsor McCay, an early master of animation and the most skilled and innovative newspaper cartoonist in the medium’s history, by the country’s pre-eminent scholar of animation.

A new poem by Bernard Goldhirsch of Springs