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Remembering Melissa Bank

Colleagues reflect on the author of "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," who died in East Hampton last month, as a writer, professor, and friend.

Sep 15, 2022
South Fork Poetry: ‘September To-Do’

It’s that time of year again.

Sep 15, 2022
The Poet Comes Calling

A New York writer, an empty nest, a dissolving marriage, a desirable visiting poet. What could go wrong?

Sep 8, 2022
Not at All Like Us

Tina Brown authoritatively picks apart the royal life of nightmare scrutiny, hangers-on, powerlessness, and love gone awry.

Sep 1, 2022
The Great Absence

In this winning debut, a father drops the ball with his bequeathal, and his daughter searches for answers.

Aug 25, 2022
Writers Galore at East Hampton Library’s Authors Night

Dozens of writers were on hand Saturday night for the East Hampton Library’s annual Authors Night, a celebration of all things literary. 

Aug 19, 2022
A Woman Wronged

A psychological tale of revenge that doesn’t stint on biting social critique.

Aug 18, 2022
Authors Night Hits Herrick Park

This year, 100 writers will be under a tent in Herrick Park for the East Hampton Library benefit.

Aug 11, 2022
We Don’t Need No Education

When a self-improvement movement becomes something sinister.

Aug 11, 2022
The Edie and Andy Show

In “As It Turns Out,” Alice Sedgwick Wohl continues the complicated story of her sister, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s “superstar.”

Aug 4, 2022
The Sins of the Mogul

Ken Auletta is nothing if not scrupulous in telling the heinous tale of the fall of Harvey Weinstein.

Jul 28, 2022
‘Make It Funnier, Meaner’

A snarky, often ribald, always revealing memoir from Broadway royalty.

Jul 21, 2022
South Fork Poetry: ‘Moderate Rupture’

A poet takes exception to the notion that Armageddon will be sponsored.

Jul 14, 2022
The Wettest Place

During Prohibition “liquor was flowing like a river” from the East End to New York City.

Jul 14, 2022
Gary Ginsberg at The Church

It’s Gary Ginsberg at The Church in Sag Harbor Saturday and Kati Marton at Fridays at Five in Bridgehampton tomorrow.

Jul 7, 2022
The Consolation of Art 

The lives of artists, complicated women, heartbreak, and the consolation of great art are subjects in Frederic Tuten’s “The Bar at Twilight.”

Jul 7, 2022
A Poet Discovers Her Past 

A genealogy test answers nagging questions of identity and prompts a deeper search.

Jun 30, 2022
In Search of an Enemy

A tale of two teens, a grudge, and a gun reveals a way to address violence in our cities.

Jun 30, 2022
Postscript: The Enduring Mystery of Scott Clarke 

Try as I might in researching “The Lost Boys of Montauk,” the youngest of the foursome, Scott Clarke, remained an enigma. Until now.

Jun 23, 2022
The Gift of Perception

A Pulitzer winner describes how he reached other writerly spirits, those of note and those just learning to express themselves.

Jun 23, 2022
Out of Acadia

This historical Y.A. novel follows a forced evacuation from Nova Scotia, and a teenage girl who lands in colonial East Hampton.

Jun 16, 2022
King of the Art House

The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

Jun 9, 2022
On Writing Behind Masks

Philip Schultz and Jill Bialosky, poet turned memoirist and his editor, will have a meeting of the minds Friday in Sag Harbor.

Jun 2, 2022
Paul McCartney as Writer

This assemblage of lyric sheets, recollections, photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings is nothing if not unconventional.

Jun 2, 2022
American Exile

Zachary Lazar’s new novel is a meditation on life in Trump’s America — and how to escape it.

May 26, 2022
The Promiscuous and the Protean

In Iris Smyles’s new story collection, the pithy brilliance pours forth like water from a sculptural fountain.

May 19, 2022
Architecture as Storytelling

This is the autobiography of a career more than a man, and an extended essay on a philosophy of architecture.

May 12, 2022
Isaac Babel, Witness to War

Isaac Babel’s accounts of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 are so eerily reminiscent of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that reading Babel now one tries not to shudder at the cyclical madness of history. 

May 12, 2022
Love and Spy Craft

Writing a biography of the couture-sporting, Slavic companion of “the most toxic leader in American history”? Sounds like trouble.

May 5, 2022
Chasing the Frick Diamond

A novelist’s skillful dive into the complexities of the legendary Frick family of art collectors.

Apr 28, 2022